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Elaeagnus glabra was slightly injured at Aldenham, and E. reflexa lost 



its leaves and had the young wood killed at Camberley ; E. multiflora 



was unhurt at Belvoir Castle and Wisley. 

 Enkiafithus japonicus was but slightly injured at Olapham, and not at 



all at Aldenham; E. campanulatus sustained no injury at Camberley 



or Barford. 



Eriobotrya japonica, unhurt at Poolewe, had its leaves slightly seared 



at Hythe, Chelsea, Horsham, and Wisley, and its shoots badly cut 



at Nuneham Park and Belvoir Castle, but was killed at Chelmsford. 

 Fatsia japonica was unharmed at Dunrobin Castle, but the variegated 



form was killed at Corstorphine, where it had stood for eight years ; 



the type was severely injured at Chelmsford and at Tetbury, but 



unhurt at Harrow Weald. 

 Uaynamelis arbor ea was unhurt at Wisley and elsewhere, and H. mollis 



and H. Zuccariniana at Clapham. 

 Hydrangea paniculata was unhurt at Belvoir Castle, but killed at 



Gisburn. 



Idesia polycarpa was severely cut at Abbotsbury. 



Kerria japonica was slightly damaged at North Mymnis, but unhurt in 

 most places. 



Larix leptolepis was unhurt at Osterley Park and L. kurilensis at 

 Tortworth. 



Lespedeza cyrtobothra was uninjured at Monreith. 



Lycoris squamigera was unharmed at Enfield and Isleworth. 



Lysimachia clethroides was killed at Mowbray Park, where other species 



were but slightly damaged. 

 Magnolia compressa was uninjured at Haslemere; M. hypoleuca at 



Tortworth; M. Kobus at Clapham; M. parviflora at Osterley Park 



and Harrow Weald; M. salicifolia and M. Watsoyii at Clapham; 



M. stellata in many places. 

 Malouetia asiatica was killed at Abbotsbury. 

 Miscanthus gracillima was unhurt at Belvoir Castle. 

 Musa japonica was unharmed at Camberley. 



Osmanthus Aquifolium was slightly damaged at Kew, where the variety 



llicifolium was uninjured, as it was at Aldersey; the latter was 



slightly damaged at Hever Castle and Isleworth. 

 Paulownia imperialis was uninjured at Horsham, slightly damaged at 



North Mymms, severely at Belvoir Castle, and killed to the ground 



at Chelmsford and S. Ayrshire. 

 Photinia variabilis { = P. villosa) sustained no damage at Aldenham and 



at Tortworth. 



Pieris ovalifolia was unhurt at Belvoir Castle (where it has stood for 

 twenty-eight years), at Alloa, and at Wisley. 



Pittosporum Tobira was unharmed at Brympton House and on a south 

 wall at Monreith, and only slightly damaged on a south-east wall at 

 Haslemere, but more severely on a south-west wall at Horsham, and 

 j killed at Nuneham Park and Enfield. 



I Quercus serraia and Q. variabilis were uninjured at Tortworth. 



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