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and Poolewe it escaped injury entirely ; R. fulgens was unhurt at Kew 

 and Clapham, Yorks; R. glaucum has proved quite hardy at Kew, but, 

 was killed to the ground at Wisley, and completely on the rockery*- 

 at Foots Cray; R. Aucklandii was unhurt at Belvoir Castle and' 

 Poolewe, but severely cut at Crawley; the hybrid R. kewense proved 

 quite hardy at Belvoir Castle ; R. Keysii died at Crawley ; R. lepidotum I 

 was unhurt at Kew; R. niveum was unhurt at Kew and Belvoir I 

 Castle, and suffered slightly at Haslemere; R. Nuttallii was unhurt j 

 at Poolewe; R. triflorum was killed to the ground at Crawley and | 

 Wisley (though some plants escaped with serious injury to the 

 branches), and at Kew the damage was severe; R. x Victorianum \ 

 (Dalhousiae x Nuttallii) was uninjured at St. Keverne. | 

 Roscoea purpurea was unhurt at Camberley, where it has grown for 

 nine years. 



Spiraea flagelliformis had the tips of the growths cut at Wisley. 



Sty rax serrulatum virgatum was unhurt at Belvoir Castle, where it has 



stood for fourteen years. . ! 

 Symplocos crataegoides died in the open at Nuneham Park. 

 Stranvaesia glaucescens was killed to the ground at Thetford. : 

 Trachy carpus Martinanus was unhurt at Haslemere. 



East Indies and Tropical Asia. 



Acacia ehurnea, newly planted, died at Abbotsbury. 



Broussonetia papyrifera laciniata, three years old, was killed to the 



ground at Aldenham, but stronger plants and other varieties were 



uninjured there. 



Campanula pallida { = C .■ color ata) was killed at Hornby Castle. 

 Clethra canescens was uninjured at Crawley, but at Abbotsbury it died 



after surviving the winter. ' 

 Deeringia celosioide^s, growing on a west wall of the Cactus House, was 



killed to the ground at Cambridge, but grew up strongly after. 

 Dracaena atropurpurea was killed to the ground at Abbotsbury. 

 Ehretia serrata was badly cut at Abbotsbury, Cambridge, and Tortworth, 



and newly transplanted plants were slightly damaged at Haslemere. 

 Jasminum humile (young) was killed to the ground at Slough, but on 



a wall at Chelsea both it and J. odoratum were unharmed. ;• 



Perhaps the point calling for most particular emphasis with regard 

 to the foregoing returns is the hardiness of the plants recently intro- 

 duced from Central China. The efforts made during the past decade to 

 obtain new plants from the little-known districts of Central Asia have ' 

 led to the enrichment of our gardens with many beautiful hardy slinibs 

 which appear to be less affected by cold than some of our common \ 

 natives, and many shrubs hitherto commonly grown. j 



Though a knowledge of the district from w4iich a plant is derived | 

 is some guide as to whether it is likely to prove hardy in our climate i 

 or not, yet there are some curious apparent contradictions, e.g. 

 Choisya ternata, from Mexico, suffered hardly at all (pp. 369 and 372), 



