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winter temperature is often very low, hardly any species of the Yuccas, 

 which are quite hardy in England, can be considered really hardy. This 

 new hybrid (although Y. glatica, one of the parents, is not hardy) is 

 perfectly hardy and it is intermediate between the two parents. — G. R. 



Zinnia elegans pumila fl. pi. aureo variegata. By L. Witt- 

 mack (Gartenflora, 1/8/03, p. 395; pi. 1517).— A brief description and 

 coloured plate of some small varieties of Zinnia elegans. — J. P. 



