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Observations upon the effects of Frost, 



rinda, which is reported safe in other stations, was also 

 damaged. 



Acer oblongum was killed on a south wall in the Society's Garden. 

 This species has always been found tender. 



Anagyris indica was killed in several places ; but little injured at 

 Claremont, against a west wall, and perfectly safe at Carclew. 



Anemone vitifolia, and several other rather tender plants of this 

 order, were uninjured at Sketty and SpofForth. 



Benthamia fragifera generally perished in the North; at Belsay 

 Castle and Woburn, it is reported as pushing from the root ; 

 at Sketty and Penllargare, in South Wales, and at Carclew, 

 where it is planted in the woods and promises to be a fine 

 underwood shrub, it only lost its leaves. It also lived at 

 North Stoneham. 



Berberis aristata, and asiatica, had their leaves destroyed gene- 

 rally, and in some cases their new shoots, but they did not 

 otherwise suffer. In the Society's Garden, B. aristata was 

 injured in a peat bed, but not where planted in common 

 soil. 



Clematis montana proved hardy everywhere against walls. 

 Colutea nepalensis survived everywhere. 



Cotoneaster microphylla was much injured, but not killed in any 

 place ; C. affinis died at Norwich to within 6 inches of the 

 graft, but was unhurt in Cornwall ; in the Society's Garden, C. 

 affinis, frigida, microphylla, and laevis, were greatly damaged, 

 while C. rotundifolia, nummularia, and acuminata, suffered 

 comparatively little. 



Desmodium nutans was killed upon a south wall in the Society's 

 Garden, after having survived 6 or 7 previous winters. 



Euonymus echinatus, and sarmentosus, were killed to the ground at 

 Liverpool, but E. Hamiltonianus did not suffer at that place ; 

 the latter was killed to the ground in the Society's Garden, 

 but sprang up again with vigour. 



