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are alive. Others which on Christmas Day last constituted some of 

 the freshest, and certainly most graceful, masses of greenery in the 

 Gardens are now leafless stems with no more beauty than a bundle of 

 pea-sticks. And the worst consequence of a season like the past one 

 is that, so late are bamboos in renewing their growth, it is not until 

 after midsummer that they become presentable again." At Burford 

 all bamboos except Arundinaria nitida were much damaged, although 

 not exposed to the east; at Wisley and Tetbury, on the other hand, 

 most species suffered but httle, a few only being made to look shabby ; 

 at Hever Castle most were killed to the ground ; at Foots Cray, where 

 they are grown in a bed surrounded by a beech hedge 20 feet in height, 

 the same thing occurred, though there a few escaped with less injury ; 

 at Cobham and at Aldenham they are reported as severely injured; but 

 at Horsham the damage done was less, and at Poolewe none was 

 injured. 



Turning now to the records of the various species, Arundinaria 

 jafonica ( = Bamhusa Metake) was either killed outright or to the 

 ground at Sutton Place, Byfieet, and Burford; it was severely damaged 

 at Wisley, Lamberhurst, and Chelmsford, and slightly at Kew, but 

 escaped unhurt at Belvoir Castle and Brodie Castle, where A . auricoma 

 was killed to the ground and A. anceps severely damaged; the last 

 was killed to the ground at Enfield; A. Hindsii was badly injured 

 in a protected bed at Cambridge, and at Burford A. Simoni was cut 

 to the ground, though at Brodie Castle it was but slightly damaged; 

 A. falcata was slightly damaged at Belvoir Castle; A. nitida, killed to 

 the ground at Byfieet, was unhurt at Kew, Burford, and Brodie Castle ; 

 A, pygmaea and A. Veitchii suffered very little at Kew; A. Fortunei 

 was severely damaged at Thetford, and A. Falconeri was killed to the 

 ground at Slough; Bamhusa fastuosa did not suffer in the least at Kew, 

 but was killed to the ground at Enfield and Brodie Castle; B. palmata, 

 and B. tessellata are reported uninjured from many gardens; B. mar- 

 morea was killed to the ground at Brodie Castle; Phyllostachys viridi- 



j glaucescens escaped damage at Belvoir Castle, but was damaged at 

 Kew, though one plant on a dry bank did not suffer at all, and lost its 



i leaves at Aston Eowant ; P. Kumasaca and P. aurea were killed to the 



I ground at Brodie Castle, but the former suffered little at Kew ; P. Quilioi 

 was slightly damaged at Kew and Burford; P. flexuosa was slightly 

 damaged at Kew, as was P. nigra; the last was killed to the ground 

 at Byfieet, but escaped altogether at Brodie Castle and in many other 



! gardens. 



Roses. — Tea and hybrid tea roses suffered greatly in many gardens, 

 a large number being killed at Wisley (see Journ. E.H.S. xxxv. (1909) 

 p. 399), Cobham (especially standards), Sutton Place, Byfieet, Wye, 

 Foots Gray, Strathfieldsaye, Harpenden, Newbury, Gisburn, and 

 Slough, and severe damage being reported by numerous other gardens. 

 Of the species, Rosa laevigata was slightly cut on a wall at St. Keverne, 

 and the variety major on a west wall at Horsham; R. sinica 

 ' Anemone ' was unhurt in even the bleakest situations at Clapham, 



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