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don Horticultural Society," and partly taken 

 from our own observations and correspondence, 

 may be of use to those who, like ourselves, culti- 

 vate exotic plants, in general considered tender, 

 in the open air. In all cases where reference is 

 made to Dalkeith, the plants have had no arti- 

 ficial protection beyond being planted against 

 walls of various aspects, or in borders in front 

 of such walls, while many are grown as open 

 standards on the exposed lawns. 



LIST OF PLANTS WHICH HAVE STOOD UNIN- 

 JURED THE SEVERITY OF THE WINTER 

 OF 1853-4— 



( When the thermometer indicated, as it did at Chis- 

 tvick on the night of the 28th December 1853, 8°; 

 and on the night of the 2d January 1854, 4°; at 

 Kew, 13°; at Dalkeith, 10°; at Bicton,from 6° to 

 10°; at Singleton, close upon the sea, facing the 

 south, 16°; and at other places equally low tem- 

 peratures.) 



Abeliauniflora,rupestris,floribunda, uninjured 

 at Dalkeith; Acacia Julibrissin ; Akebia quinata; 

 Amygdalus angustifolius,incana; Andromeda flo- 

 ribunda, formosa, uninjured at Chiswick ; Anthyl- 

 lis hestrix, uninjured at Dalkeith for years; Arau- 

 caria imbricata, injured only in very exposed 

 places, not injured at Dalkeith ; Aralia japonica, 

 as a fine hardy open lawn tree at Dalkeith ; Arbu- 

 tus procera, unedo, suffered only in exposed 

 places, uninjured at Dalkeith ; Azalea ovata, Cali- 

 fornia; Bambusa falcata, uninjured at Dalkeith; 

 Benthamia fragifera, uninjured at Dalkeith ; Ber- 

 beris Fortunii, uninjured at Dalkeith and other 

 places; Berberis glumacea, fascicularis, interme- 

 dia, Beali, japonica, repens, aquifolia, dulcis, asia- 

 tica, aristata, Darwinii,empetrifolia,cuneata, par- 

 viflora, dealbata, coriaria,flexuosa,Lycium; Biota 

 orientalis, aurea ; Bignonia grandiflora, at Dal- 

 keith ; Bridgesia spicata, has stood for years at 

 Dalkeith; Bupleurum fruticosum, uninjured at 

 Dalkeith and elsewhere ; BuddleaLindley ana, not 

 injured at Dalkeith; Buxus balearica, uninjured 

 at Dalkeith and elsewhere; Carmichselia austra- 

 lis, uninjured at Dalkeith ; Caprifolium flexu- 

 osum, not injured at Dalkeith or Chiswick ; 

 Caprosina rhamnoides, uninjured at Dalkeith,; 

 Cerasus ilicifolia, reported as injured in many 

 parts of England, not in the least injured at 

 Dalkeith ; Ceanothus, all the genus with the 

 exception of rigidus, intergerrimus, and ver- 

 rucosus, much injured — in many places killed — 

 while they, along with azureus, remained unin- 

 jured at Dalkeith ; Chimonanthus fragrans and 

 varieties not in the least hurt, flowered most 

 profusely during winter at Dalkeith ; Cistus 

 formosus, ladaniferus, and several others, escaped 

 at Dalkeith — most of the genus killed elsewhere ; 

 Clematis Grahamii, grata, polymorpha, montana, 

 calycina, azurea, tubulosa, grandiflora, unin- 

 jured at Dalkeith — the five first not injured at 

 Chiswick; Colletia horrida, although protected 

 at Chiswick, was killed to the ground — escaped 

 in various situations at Dalkeith wholly unpro- 

 tected, as did also C. spinosa ; C. serrata, escaped 

 at Chiswick ; Colquhounia coccinea escaped 

 injury at Dalkeith without the least protection ; 

 Cotoneaster Roy lei escaped at Chiswick ; Deut- 



zia gracilis, scabra, escaped at Chiswick and 

 Dalkeith ; D. staminia, escaped at Chiswick ; 

 Diotis ceratoides, escaped at Chiswick ; Duvana 

 dependens, ovata ; Edwardsia grandiflora, unin- 

 jured at Dalkeith, only slightly hurt in other 

 places; Eloeagnus parvifolius, retusus, apparently 

 quite hardy ; Elsholtzia polystachya ; Eriobo- 

 trya japonica, uninjured at Chiswick and Dal- 

 keith; Kscallonia, all killed to the ground at 

 Kew, while macrantha, rubra, montevidensis, 

 were unhurt at Dalkeith, and rubra only 

 escaped injury at Chiswick; Eucalyptus, were 

 all either killed or much injured at Kew, while 

 E. coccifera only escaped at Chiswick, and E. 

 perfoliata at Dalkeith. This plant is 20 feet in 

 height, and has withstood our winters for twelve 

 years without protection. Seven other species 

 were killed with us, but these were young 

 plants only recently planted out. Euonymus 

 japonicus, not injured at Chiswick or Dalkeith; 

 E. angustifolius, Hamiltonianus, survived at 

 Chiswick ; Fabiana imbricata, slightly injured 

 at Kew, not in the least so at Dalkeith; Fon- 

 tanesia phillyroeoides, uninjured at Dalkeith 

 without protection ; Forsythia viridissima, unin- 

 jured in most places; Fuchsia, most of the 

 species and varieties stand the winter at Dal- 

 keith. Although cut down to the ground, they 

 start readily in spring, making wood and flower- 

 ing profusely through the summer and autumn ; 

 discolor and Riccartonia are seldom cut down. 

 Garry a elliptica, uninjured at Chiswick, Bicton, 

 Dalkeith, Southampton, and Windermere ; Gaul- 

 theria Shallon, procumbens, and nummularia, 

 hardy in most places ; Genista candicans, unin- 

 jured at Chiswick, virgata, uninjured at Dal- 

 keith ; Glycine sinensis, and sinensis alba, 

 apparently hardy everywhere ; Glyptostrobus 

 pendulus, uninjured at Chiswick and elsewhere ; 

 Gynerium argenteum, not in the least injured 

 at Dalkeith, appears to be hardy in most places ; 

 Hydrangea quercifolia, involucrata, uninjured 

 at Chiswick and Dalkeith ; Ilex latifolia, slightly 

 injured in open borders at Chiswick — sickly 

 plant killed at Dalkeith, furcata, perfectly 

 hardy at Bagshot and Alton, cornuta, hardy at 

 Bagshot and Southampton, perado and opaca, 

 hardy at Chiswick, Taraga, leptacantha, and 

 microcarpa, uninjured at Bagshot, deprina, 

 unhurt at Dalkeith; Jasminum nudiflorum, 

 apparently hardy everywhere, Wallichianum, 

 affine, uninjured at Chiswick and Dalkeith ; 

 Laurus regalis, slightly injured at Chiswick, 

 nobilis, perfectly uninjured at Dalkeith in the 

 open quarters, scarcely injured at Kew or 

 Chiswick — much injured in most places, 

 Sassafras, uninjured in most places ; Lagerstrce- 

 mia indica, uninjured at Bagshot ; Leycesteria 

 formosa, injured neither at Chiswick nor Dal- 

 keith ; Ligustrum japonicum and ovalifolium, 

 uninjured at Chiswick, lucidum, very slightly 

 injured in the neighbourhood of London, killed 

 in cold exposed places, quite uninjured at 

 Dalkeith ; Lonicera angustifolia, discolor, di- 

 versifolia, fragrantissima, escaped injury at 

 Chiswick ; Maclura aurantiaca, not the least 

 injured at Dalkeith ; Magnolia grandiflora, not 

 injured at Dalkeith, conspicua, macrophylla, 

 purpurea, auriculata, glauca, obtusifolia, not in- 



