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Desmodium tiliaefolium was killed to the ground at Enfield, but unhurt 

 at Horsham (on a west wall) and at Olapham, Yorks.. ■ i i ]. 



Deutzia corymbosa w^as greatly damaged at North Mymms. 



Ehretia macrophylla was cut back badly at Tortworth. 



Fraxinus rhyncophylla was unhurt at Tortworth. 



Gaultheria trichophylla was unhurt at Hornby Castle. 



Hemiphragma heterophyllum was unhurt at Enfield, where it was pro- 

 tected by a light placed over the bed. 



Holboellia latifolia was badly injured at Hinton Admiral, even thirty- 

 year-old plants on walls. 



Hypericum oUongijolium was killed to the ground at Enfield, and 

 slightly damaged at Hinton Admiral and North Mymms ; H. patulum 

 was killed at North Mymms, killed to the ground at Hinton Admiral, 

 Foots Cray, Enfield, and Osterley Park, but unhurt at Hornby Castle ; 

 H. Moserianum, a hybrid between H. patulum and the European 

 H. calycinum, was killed to the ground at North Mymms and Thet- 

 ford ; H. reptans was killed to the ground at Thetford, though'unhurt 

 at Hornby Castle; H. Hookerianum was slightly damaged at Belvoir 

 Castle. 



Leycesteria formosa was killed to the ground at Wisley, Chelmsford, 

 and North Mymms, much damaged at Thetford, but escaped injury 

 at New Galloway. 



Lonicera ohovata was unhurt in the open border at North Mymms and 



at Olapham, Yorks. 

 Magnolia Camphelli escaped injury at Kew, 



Parrotia J acquemontiana was unhurt at Haslemere , and at Clapham, 

 Yorks. 



Perovshia atriplici folia had the young wood killed at Camberley and 

 Thetford, and was killed to the ground at Aldenham, but escaped 

 completely at Hythe, North Mymms (in the open), Killerton (in the 

 open), and Aldersey (on a south wall). 



Piptanthus nepalensis, unhurt at Aldersey and Monreith, was more or 

 less damaged at Hever Castle and Thetford. 



Polygonum vaccinifolium was severely damaged at Wimbledon, Sutton 

 Place, and Thetford. 



Rhododendron Anthopogon was unhurt at Kew ; R. arhoreum was slightly 

 damaged at Wisley, but some plants were killed outright ; at Crawley 

 it was seriously damaged, but at Monreith and Harrow Weald it was 

 unhurt; the variety of Camphelliae was unhurt at Kew; R. harhatum 

 was unhurt at Kew and Monreith; R. campamulatum was not 

 damaged at Kew, Harrow Weald, and Belvoir Castle, nor its variety 

 Wallichii at Harrow Weald; R. campylocarpum escaped injury at 

 Harrow Weald and Clapham, Yorks; E. ciliatum, uninjured at 

 Kew, was killed to the ground in sheltered places at Wisley; 

 R. cinnaharinum was unhurt at Kew, Belvoir Castle, and Monreith; 

 R. Dalhousiae was unhurt at Poolewe; some plants of R. Falconeri 

 were killed at Wisley, and others, more sheltered, were only slightly 

 harmed, as thej were at Crawley and Colwyn Bay ; at Belvoir Castle 



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