274 Observations upon the effects of Frost, 



either destroyed, or very much injured. It perished at 

 SpofForth under a verandah. 



Dorycnium Mrsutum perished in the Society's Garden. 



Daphne Laureola, a British plant, was much injured in the 

 Society's Garden, Cneorum suffered a little ; all the others 

 died. But D. pontica sustained no damage at Liverpool, or 

 Spofforth ; although it was damaged at Dropmore. At Sketty 

 and Penllargare none of the species were at all affected. 



D. australis stood at Abbotsbury. 



Diospyrus Lotus was much injured in the Society's Garden. 



Euphorbia mellifera proved quite hardy, and untouched, at Car- 

 clew. E. pithyusa, veneta, and rigida, lived at Abbotsbury. 



Erica. The collections of hardy heaths suffered great loss. 

 After the frost of the 20th, the bushes were found shivered to 

 pieces, as if they had received a discharge of small shot; 

 excepting in the south, they were either destroyed or killed 

 to the ground ; even E. vagans, the Cornish heath, must be 

 included in this list. E. australis, however, suffered but little 

 at Brenchley, and stood undamaged at Carclew, Abbotsbury, 

 and Liverpool, but it perished in most other places. Large 

 bushes of E. mediterranea, in the shrubbery at Calderstone, 

 were very much broken and disfigured by the snow, but none 

 of them were killed. At Sketty, large plants of mediterranea 

 in exposed situations suffered greatly, but stricta escaped 

 without material damage. E. arborea was killed to the ground 

 at Woburn, but remained unhurt at Abbotsbury, Penrice, 

 Penllargare, and some other places in the neighbourhood. 



E. scoparia escaped at Spofforth, and umbellata at Abbotsbury. 

 Figs, unless against walls, were killed to the ground in all the 



midland and northern counties, but experienced no injury in 

 Devon and Cornwall. Plants, 10 or 12 years old, were killed 

 to the ground at Belsay, in the same situation with a plant of 

 the scarlet variety of Arbutus Unedo, which was unhurt. 



