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Evodia vitaecarpa survived uninjured m an open bed at Cambridge. 

 Exochorda Alberti, from Turkestan, was unhurt at Crawley and 



Olapham, Yorks, as was E. x macrantha at St. Keverne. 

 Fraxinus mandschurica and F. Mariesii were uninjured at Tortworth. 

 Gleditschia Delavayi was not damage'd at Haslemere, but at the Physic 



Garden, Chelsea, in an exposed situation, where it had stood four 



years, it was killed outright. 

 Gordonia anomala was so seriously damaged as to be only just alive at 



Hythe; G. grandis was also badly cut, but recovered. 

 Hedysaruyn multijugiim bad the points of the growths cut back at 



Chelsea. 



Hydrangea Horiensia was unhurt at Whitby, and slightly damaged at 



Camberley and S. Ayrshire, but killed to the ground at Chelmsford, 



North Mymms, and Slough (young plants). 

 Hypericum chinense was killed to the ground at North Mymms and 



severely cut at Horsham, but at Haslemere the damage was but 



slight. 



Ilex Pernyi received no injury at Burford and St. Keverne. 



lUicium religiosum (= anisatu7n?) was uninjured at Camberley, where 



it has stood sixteen years, at Monreith, and at Clapham. 

 Incarvillea compacta was not damaged at Belvoir Castle, but /. variabilis 



was killed outright at Monreith, and /. sinensis at Camberley, but 



/. grandiflora was not damaged at Isleworth or at Monreith; 



/. Delavayi is reported as uninjured from Chelsea, Belvoir Castle, 



and Balmae. 



Indigofera macros lachys was killed to tbe ground at Hythe but 



recovered. 

 Ilea iJicifolia was uniujured at Kew. 



Jaswiniim officinale, uninjured on a wall at Chelsea, had its branches 

 severely cut back at Slough, and was slightly injured at New 

 Galloway; J. priimilimim died at Chester and on west walls at 

 Nuneham Park and Foots Cray, and was killed to the ground even 

 on a wall at Kew, Sutton Place, Crawley, and Belvoir Castle, but a 

 plant on a south wall in South Ayrshire was only slightly damaged, 

 a standard in the open at St. Keverne was but slightly damaged, and 

 on south walls at Haslemere and at Killerton it was unhurt, as it 

 was at Camberley. 



Koelreuteria paniculata was badly cut at Aldersey and slightly at 

 Wisley, but it quite escaped injury at Belvoir Castle, Colwyn Bay, 

 and Tortworth. 



Libocedrus macrolepis was killed outright at Kew. 



Ligustrum Delavayanum was severely injured at Aldenham, as was 

 L. lucidum at Aldenham, Brympton, Osterley Park, and North 

 Mymms, and the variety tricolor at Aldenham; L. yunnanense was 

 killed outright at Aldenham, while L. strongylophyllum was unhurt; 

 the last two were unhurt at Horsham. 



pirundend/ron chinense was quite undamaged at Kew. 



tonicera Maackii proved perfectly hardy at Burford and Haslemere; 



