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bottom of a wall at Claremont. Mr. Herbert reports, that 

 at Spofforth the Alstroemerias are all very flourishing ; a large 

 bed of seedling plants of aarea, covered with sawdust, began 

 to show green sprouts in March, and even a single plant of 

 the Valparaiso variety, which might have been supposed to 

 be tenderer than the former from Chiloe, covered only with 

 a hatful of sawdust, pushed at the same time. 

 Aloysia citriodora was killed to the surface of the ground in the 

 midland counties, but in the south of England only deprived of 

 the young wood. Several plants had remained for years un- 

 injured at Sketty,but they were affected in the winter of 1836-7, 

 and were totally destroyed in the present winter. A plant, 

 however, against a wall at Penrice Castle sustained no material 

 injury. 



Araucaria Dombeyi, (A. imbricata of the Gardens,) was but little 

 injured any where in the midland counties. At Kew, where it 

 was protected, at Dropmore, and Redleaf, it was but slightly 

 affected ; in the Society's Garden, unprotected, the bottom 

 branches were killed, but it was not hurt materially. Mr. 

 Gowen has furnished me with the following fact, concerning 

 this interesting species : " There are 3 Araucarias planted 

 out at Highclere, and each about a foot high. They are 

 all nearly upon the same level in the pleasure ground, 

 which is a plateau of thin soil upon a substratum of hard 

 chalk, on which is overlaid a bed of plastic clay, more or 

 less thick. The height of the plateau is about 600 feet 

 above the level of the sea, lying to the north of a very ex- 

 tensive and elevated tract of chalk downs; the climate is 

 cold, and the winter atmosphere damp and foggy, and extremely 

 liable to wind. Two of these plants are in open spaces in a 

 large grove of lofty trees, and, of course, sheltered from wind. 

 These suffered last winter, having had their foliage much in- 

 jured. The third is on the open lawn, unsheltered and 



