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Escalloilia organensis was badly damaged on a wall facing south-east at 

 Haslemere. 



Gynerium argenteum was badly injured by the lake side at Osterley 

 Park, and in exposed places in Mr. Shea's garden at Foots Cray, but 

 was comparatively little hurt in most places, as at Belroir Oastle. 



Lasiandra macrantha was badly damaged at Hythe, and has since died. 



Oxalis hro^siliensis came through the winter at Enfield without injury. 



Scliinus dependens was slightly damaged in the open, where it has stood 

 for nineteen years, at Haslemere, and at Kew was cut to the ground- 

 level. 



Schubertia { = Arauja) grandiflora was killed to the ground at Hythe, 



and never recovered. 

 Tacsonia mollissima was slightly damaged on a south wall at St. Keverne. 



Chile, Peru, and the Adjacent Islands. 



Alstroemeria aurantiaca and A. chiloefisis were unhurt at Belvoir Castle. 

 Araucaria imhricata was slightly damaged in the nursery at Slough, 



but seems to have suffered but little in most places. 

 Aristotelia Macqui lost its leaves at Haslemere, and was seriously 



damaged at Aldenham, where the variegated form was killed to the 



ground. 



Azara dentata was unhurt at Belvoir Castle, but A. Gilliesii was killed 

 to the ground at Nuneham Park, but shot up from the base again ; and 

 A. integrifolia was killed to the ground at Tetbury. 



Berheridopsis corallina was killed at Wisley and on a south wall at Aston 

 Eowant, slightly cut only at Monreith on a south wall and on a wall 

 at North Mymms, and unhurt at Killerton on a west wall and at 

 Belvoir Castle. 



Berheris congestifl,ora died at North Mymms, v/here it had grown for 

 four years ; B. Darwinii was severely damaged at Cobham and Sutton 

 Place, and slightly at Hever Castle, Lamberhurst, and Wisley, but 

 killed to the ground at Wye and Slough (young plants). The beautiful 

 hybrid B. stenophylla, of which B. Darwinii is one of the parents, is 

 not reported injured in any part of the country. 



Calceolaria integrifolia was unhurt at Killerton, but G. violacea died on 

 a west wall there, and was killed to the ground at Hinton Admiral 

 and Harrow Weald, though only slightly damaged in the open at 

 St. Keverne; G\ ample xicaulis was killed at Abbotsbury, where other 

 species stood safely; G. x Burbidgei was killed at St. Keverne. 



Can^tua buxifolia died at Abbotsbury, and was killed to the ground at 

 Hythe. 



Cassia coquimbensis was killed at Abbotsbury. 



Colletia cruciata was killed to the ground at Thetford and North 

 Mymms, and seriously damaged at Elstree and Nuneham Park; 

 C. spinosa, uninjured at Chelsea and North Mymms, was killed to ^ 

 the ground at Wisley and Thetford. 



Datura sanguinea was killed to the ground in the open at St. Keverne. 



Biostea juncea escaped unhurt at Aldenham. 



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