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to the ground, but, having been taken up in March, it sprouted 

 from the bottom in the stove, but died soon after. The 

 white cinnamon-leaved variety, (which has stood 12 years in 

 the middle of the garden unprotected, and formed a large, 

 round, close-leaved bush,) is killed to the ground, and it is 

 doubtful whether it will push up again : it measured 18 

 inches round close to the ground, and its principal branch 

 was 3 inches diameter. It stood in a peaty compost, and the 

 plant of altaclerense touching it is more damaged than any of 

 the same cross. I believe that in a drier soil the cinnamon- 

 tae^RHODODENDRON, whether white or rose-coloured, would 

 have escaped, for another plant of the white, inarched on a 

 pontico-catawbiense stock, and planted out only last summer, 

 but growing in the natural barley-soil of the garden, against a 

 stone (east) wall, and covered with an old single mat full of 

 holes, is quite unhurt, and shooting early, which makes it very 

 liable to be cut by spring frosts. The mules from R. arbo- 

 reum by the white maximum, and from the latter by R. arbo- 

 reum were not the least hurt." R. anthopogon died at Somer- 

 ford ; R. campanulatum, without any shelter, bore a tem- 

 perature of 5° below zero at Highclere. At Spofforth the 

 the deciduous R. davuricum was killed, the evergreen variety 

 flowered more abundantly than usual. 

 Rheum Emodi survived everywhere. 



Rhus juglandifolium was killed to the ground in the Society's 

 Garden, where it had been growing unprotected for several 

 years. 



Rises glaciale lived in the Society's Garden ; and at Abbotsbury. 

 Spiraea argentea lost only the points of its shoots at Brenchley, 



and in a very bleak situation at Redleaf. The other Nepal 



species all proved hardy. 

 Stranvesia glaucescens was killed everywhere ; in the Garden of 



