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raised for its oil in any part of Ireland. To the fruit grower the 

 hardiness of the Green Ischia Fig is a good result, for it will 

 enable this variety to be cultivated much further to the north, than 

 it has hitherto been thought possible to possess Figs as open stan- 

 dards. The Aleppo Pine seems to have generally perished ; but 

 Pinus brutia, a Calabrian species very like in habit, seems to be hardy. 

 There has been some difference of opinion as to the comparative 

 hardiness of the species of Cerasus called " Laurels " in this country. 

 The fact is now established beyond doubt that C. lusitanica, the 

 Portugal laurel, is much more hardy than C. laurocerasus, the 

 common laurel. This could not have been expected from what 

 are reported to be the natural habits of those two species ; the 

 former inhabiting the mountains of Portugal and Madeira, where 

 the climate is softened by the mild air of the Atlantic, and the 

 latter being found on the mountains of the most eastern parts of 

 Europe and of Persia, where the winters are more rigorous than in 

 western countries. The death of the Sweet Bay and the Laurus- 

 tinus, on the other hand, corresponds with what might be anticipated 

 from their inhabiting only the warm rifts of calcareous rocks in thft 

 south of Europe, where, if their branches are ever killed, their 

 roots are secured against all chances of destruction. 



Of Cape plants there is little to observe further than that all the 

 shrubby species are evidently too tender to deserve cultivation, 

 without protection, north of Cornwall and Devonshire. It is, how- 

 ever, satisfactory to find that the hardskinned Cape Bulbs and tu- 

 berous Pelargonia will live in the open border, with only the aid of a 

 covering of fern-leaves, provided the border is well drained ; and the 

 undoubtedly hardy habits of Aponogeton distachyon, andRichardia 

 africana, have secured to us two additional handsome aquatics. 



The low southern latitudes of South America have furnished a 

 few accessions to hardy collections, among which the Araucaria 

 Dombeyi is the most interesting for the possessors of parks and 

 large gardens, and it has now become an object of some national 



