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Stipa arundinacea died at Thetford and was considerably damaged at 

 Camberley, though it began to grow again in the summer. 



Veronica Bidwillii, four years old, was killed at Thetford and seriously 

 injured, though not killed to the ground, on the rockery at Aldersey 

 and Monreith; V. buxifolia seems to have been but slightly injured 

 in most places ; V. cupressoides was uninjured in a very exposed posi- 

 tion at Hythe, but an old plant was seriously damaged in the open 

 at Chelsea; V. Diejfenhachii had its upper parts killed at Cam- 

 berley ; V. diosmifolia was killed to the ground at Haslemere ; at 

 Wisley V. elliptica, V. ligustrifolia, and V. rakiensis were all killed, 

 and V. parviflora var. angustifolia was very seriously damaged; V. 

 epacridea escaped almost unhurt at Thetford, and V. Haastii, which 

 was rather badly injured there, was little hurt in a well-sheltered 

 situation at Hinton Admiral and elsewhere ; V. Hectori, in an exposed 

 position, was not damaged at Hythe, but was severely cut at Thet- 

 ford; while the beautiful V. Hulkeana, which was uninjured at Killer- 

 ton on a south wall, was killed to the ground at Enfield and Aldersey 

 and seriously damaged, though not killed, at Corstorphine and Cam- 

 berley; V. Lyalli was not injured at Hythe, nor was V. lycopodioides 

 on the rockery at Wisley, and only slightly damaged at Chelsea; 

 V. macroura died outright at Camberley ; V. parviflora died at Enfield, 

 where it had stood fourteen years, and was severely damaged at Thet- 

 ford; V. pimeleoides , uninjured at Hythe and only slightly damaged 

 at Thetford, was more seriously cut, though it recovered at Osmington, 

 and old plants were killed at Enfield ; the closely allied V. glaucocae- 

 Tulea was killed to the ground at Thetford ; V. x Lindsayi, which was 

 uninjured at Monreith, died at Enfield, as did V. speciosa at Brympton 

 and V. vernicosa at Thetford; V. chathamica escaped without injury 

 on the cliff in Mr, Farrer's garden at Clapham, though on more open 

 ledges it was somewhat cut and brown; it was unharmed at Hythe. 

 Generally speaking, all the shrubby species were more or less severely 

 injured, and many were killed outright, while the many hybrid forms 

 were greatly damaged or killed. 



. North America (excluding Texas, Mexico, and California). 



Amorpha canescens was slightly damaged at Aldersey, but escaped 



entirely at Camberley and Clapham, Yorks ; A. fruticosa was unhurt 



at Camberley, but severely damaged at Aldersey. 

 A rhutus Menziesii was unhurt at Belsay Castle and at Wisley. 

 Anclepias tuherosa was either severely damaged or killed at Sutton 



Place, though sheltered, but A. Cornutii was unhurt at Belvoir 



Castle. 



Asimina triloba was unhurt in the open at Hythe. 



* The tree referred to at Belsay Castle had been growing in a quarry there for 

 3ver sixty years and had attained a height of 23 feet 9 inches and a circumference 

 it 4 feet from the ground of 1 foot 4 inches. It is with great regret we have 

 'vo record that this fine specimen was utterly destroyed by a snowfall in the winter 

 )f 1909-10. J J J 



