By Professor Lindley. 



$95 



fig-tree, against a house above five hundred feet above the sea, 

 putting out leaves although it had not had any protection whatever. 

 At Dropmore, Photinia serrulata, where sheltered, had its bl anches 

 killed down to the main stem, while another plant in a more exposed 

 situation, suffered but little injury. At Redleaf, Portugal laurels, in 

 high situations, escaped with scarcely any damage,while they suffered 

 severely in low and warmer places. At Owston near Doncaster, the 

 Banksian roses were destroyed in warm places, but against a wall, 

 completely excluded from the sun, they were but little injured. 

 Among other things lost at North Stoneham, was a Rosa multirlora, 

 30 feet high and 30 feet wide, in full vigour, and upwards of 20 

 years old, against the south part of the house. Could it have been 

 sheltered from the influence of the sun, and consequent unprepared 

 and violent exposure to frost, Mr. Beadon does not conceive that 

 he should have lost it. At Belsay in Northumberland Sir Charles 

 Monck found a great difference between the effects of the frost in 

 a new garden, in a low, dry situation, and in an old one, placed at 

 an elevation above the sea many feet higher ; in the latter a tree of 

 the sweet bay was only a little scorched in the leaves, Viburnum 

 strictum and evergreen oaks were unhurt, and Pinus halepensis, 

 but little injured ; but in the former, that is in the low, warm gar- 

 den, cypresses of 7 years growth were mostly killed, Quercus Gra- 

 muntia, white broom, Colletia serratifolia, Ilex Perado, rosemary, 

 Anagyris indica, Buxus balearica, Buddlea globosa, the Fuchsia, 

 Yucca, Cistus, Laurustinus, Arbutus, and Erica arborea, were killed, 

 or killed to the ground at least. It is useless to multiply such 

 facts. They, and all of a like nature, however paradoxical they 

 may appear, are no doubt to be explained on the same principle 

 as the practice of selecting a northern exposure for Moutan Paeo- 

 nies, and similar plants, which are apt to suffer from early spring 

 frosts. 



It is well known, that plants in a state of growth suffer more 

 from frost, than those which are dormant. I have seen young shoots 



