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found upon them most of the year round. L. 
Boscaweni seems the least hardy. It has been out of 
doors for two winters, but 10 degrees of frost this 
season damaged the late-growing, young shoots. 
L. Nichollsii seems much more likely to prove hardy 
in Sussex. The height is 8 feet, and its position is 
6 feet from a wall. In the summer of 1915, we made 
an experimental bed for Leptospermums in an open 
position, though surrounded by a circle of protecting 
trees, sufficient to keep off the worst gales. After 19 
degrees of frost, we found that Nichollsii and 
Chapmani were quite uninjured, though Boscaweni 
was severely damaged, while flavescens was killed. 
L. Nairni, a young plant, was uninjured. The 
flowers of this last are like those of Nichollsii, but 
the foliage has great merit, and is almost the colour 
of the best forms of Purple Beech. 
All our plants of Nairni were raised from seed 
sown two or three years ago. 
LESPEDEZA. Bush Clover. Leguminosse. 
L. Sieboldii. N. China and Japan. 
Syn. Desmodium penduliflorum. 
LEUCOJUM. Snowflake. Amaryllidaceae. 
L. vemum. Spring Snowflake. Europe. 
LEUCOTHOE (ANDROMEDA). Ericaceae. 
L. axillaris. S.E. United States. 
L. Cateshsei. S.E. United States. 
L. racemosa. S.E. United States. 
LEWISIA. Portulacacese. 
*L. Cotyledon. California. 
*L. Tweedyi. California. 
LEYCESTERIA. Caprifoliaceae. 
L. formosa. Himalaya. 
LIBERTIA. Iridacese. 
L. tricolor. New Zealand. 
