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ex£>erience of most persons who have attempted accli- 
matizing plants, that success not unfrequently is the 
reward, when from the habits of the plants, and the 
character of the climate from which they come, a con- 
trary result might be anticipated. We remember in 
England some ten years since, seeing at Chatsworth a 
plant of Weigela rosea, in a house built, if we mistake 
not, expressly for it, because Sir Joseph, then Mr. 
Paxton, did not think it hardy — -judging probably from 
the country to which it belonged ; and now there is no 
more common and hardier shrub, and, we may add, 
more beautiful in the season, or one more generally 
planted in the Northern States. Mr. Loudon very truly 
observes, “ That though the nature of a species cannot 
be so far altered as to fit an inhabitant of a very hot 
climate for a very cold one, yet that the habits of in- 
dividuals admit of considerable variation, and that some 
plants of warm climates are found to adapt themselves 
much more readily to cold climates than others ; thus 
the common passion flower, according to Dr. Walker, 
when first introduced into the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden, lost its leaves during the winter, but in a few 
years the same plant retained the greater part of them 
at that season.” The same author relates that plants of 
the common yew, sent from Paris to Stockholm, to 
plant certain designs of Le Notre laid out there for the 
King of Sweden, all died, although the yew T is a native 
of that country as well as France. 
“ Every gardener,” he says, “ must have observed that 
the common weeds which have sprung up in pots, in 
hot-beds, or in hot-liouses, when these pots happen to 
be set out in the open air, during winter or spring, 
have their leaves killed or injured, whilst the same 
species growing in the open ground are uninjured.” 
We have ourselves observed, that peach trees in pots, 
if by chance they are left out all winter, are destroyed, 
though the same tree in the ground can resist any 
