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Observations upon the effects of Frost, 



materially injured ; phcenicea had been killed by the preceding 

 winter; lycia was damaged in the Society's Garden, but 

 oxycedrus was unharmed there. 



Lavandula Spica was killed in the Society's Garden. 



Laurustinuses in those places where the cold was very severe, 

 were found to suffer in proportion to the shelter they ex- 

 perienced ; in the warm gardens about London, and in other 

 protected situations, they were generally destroyed ; but at 

 Owston they escaped in shaded situations against walls ; and 

 at Claremont, Mr. M c Intosh reports, that they were killed 

 to the surface, except where they were stunted, and growing 

 in cold late situations, not influenced by the sun. At Sketty, 

 where the winter was comparatively mild, some of these plants 

 in eastern exposures were injured, and others, in sheltered 

 situations, continued to flower unhurt. At Hitcham in Suffolk 

 they were little injured. 



Laurels. As is usual, the common laurel suffered more than 

 the Portugal, and in some low situations was completely 

 killed to the ground, but neither appear to have materially 

 suffered anywhere ; at Sketty, they were both observed to have 

 lost their leaves to a far greater extent than was ever before 

 seen. Upon the subject of the common laurel, Mr. M c 

 Intosh observes, that in some parts of the ground at Clare- 

 mont, whole banks of them were killed to the surface, whilst 

 others harldly lost a leaf ; this he observed on dry sheltered 

 banks, as well as in more exposed places, and even by the 

 banks of ponds, and where they all appeared alike healthy ; 

 wherever a current of air existed, they suffered most ; those 

 planted, (perhaps to the number of 10,000,) in autumn, stood 

 as follows, viz. those planted in September and beginning of 

 October, which had begun to grow, were very much cut up, 

 those planted from the beginning of November to Christ- 

 mas nearly escaped. Some trees, 25 feet high and 6 or 



