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Piptantlius Nepalensis (Botanic Garden, No. 418), grew, 
as we are informed by Mr. Cameron, to a considerable sized 
shrub, in the Birmingham Garden. It flowered several years, 
l)oth in peat and light sandy soil, suffered little in winter, 
produced abundance both of flowers and seeds, until the 
winter of 1837-8 killed the whole. 
Salvia fulgens, in the same garden, lived for four or five 
years, sometimes but little injured, at other times destroyed to 
the ground. Some of the plants were a considerable size, but 
they all perished in 1837-8. 
IMany years ago, plants of Melaluca hypericifolia, IMetosi- 
deros saligna, Edwardsia microphylla, and Edwardsia graudi- 
flora, and some other smaller plants, were trained against the wall 
of the dwelling house of a nursery, at Edinburgh, where they 
were covered with mats, in severe weather ; but probable that 
care was unnecessary, as, during five or six years, they never 
seemed to be in the least injured by frost; the soil was of 
middling texture, well drained. 
Cineraria maritima, in Surrey, stood uninjured for years, in 
a garden in an elevated situation, in a strong stiff clayey soil, 
mixed with pebbles ; while, in a mueh lower situation, and 
with a light soil, it would not survive a moderate winter, 
although only a mile intervened between the two situations. 
Acacia julibrissin, in the same county, in a low, but airy, 
situation, attained the height of 10 to 12 feet, against a west 
wall, and flowered freely ; but in an adjacent garden it never 
survived the winter, although all apparent circumstances were 
equal. 
Calla aBthiopica is perfectly hardy when immersed in water, 
from 12 to 18 inches in depth, the frost never reaching the 
roots, although the tops may be destroyed. 
Aponogeton distachyon (Botanic Garden, No. 5.59), when 
kept in water, in a stove or greenhouse, as it formerly was, 
seldom flowered ; but when plaeed in an open pond, it not only 
flowers nearly the whole year, but also increases rapidly, 
either by runners or by seeds ; probably the latter 
Alstrcemeria acutifolia has been against the east end of a 
stove, in the Birmingham Garden, ten years; never having 
suffered from the weather, flowers freely every year; the soil 
deep, light, and dry. 
