JUNE . 
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EFFECTS OF THE WINTER. 
The following notes may perhaps be interesting to your readers, 
showing as they do the effects of the late cold winter on plants growing 
in the pleasure grounds at Highcler 
Pinus insignis killed. 
,, tuberculata ,, 
,, monticola, injured. 
„ Montezunne ,, 
,, Llaveanj;, uninjured. 
„ JefFreyi" „ 
,, Pallasiana ,, 
,, Lambertiana ,, 
„ excelsa ,, 
Abies Brunoniana, injured. 
,, Douglasii, uninjured. 
,, Menziesii ,, 
,, morinda ,, 
Picea cephalonica ,, 
,, Pinsapo ,, 
„ grandis _ ,, 
,, Webbiana, injured. 
Cupressus torulosa, killed. 
,, Uhdeana ,, 
,» Goveniana ,, 
,, macrocarpa, killed in an 
exposed situation ; un - 
injured where sheltered 
Cedrus Deodara, uninjured. 
,, atlantica ,, 
Junij)erus Bermudiana, killed. 
,, recuiwa, uninjured. 
Thuja gigantea ,, 
,, nepalensis ,, 
Castle, near Newbury, Berks:— 
Thujopsis borealis, uninjured 
Taxus adpressa ,, 
Taxodium sempervirens, injured. 
Cryptomeria japonica, uninjured. 
Araucaria imbricata „ 
Quercus Ilex, injured. 
,, ,, Fordii, nearly dead. 
Wellingtonia gigantea, uninjured. 
Berberis japonica, injured. 
„ Bealii ,, 
,, Fortunii ,, 
,, Darwinii, uninjured. 
Aralia spinosa , killed. 
Crataegus pyracantha „ 
Lonicera flexuosa „ 
Bhus cotinus, young wood killed. 
Punica granatum ,, 
Halesia tetraptera ,, 
Cercis siliquastrum ,, 
Calycanthus floridus ,, 
Prunus sinensis ,, 
Ilex cornuta, killed. 
Laurustinus, Sweet Bays, Arbutus, 
Escallonia rubra, Ligustrum 
japonicum, Myrtus communis, 
killed back to the ground, but 
breaking from the bottom. 
Wistaria sinensis, uninjured. 
Forsythia viridissima ,, 
On the morning of December 25, 1860, the thermometer indicated 
8°, 24° below the freezing point, the lowest noted here last winter. 
May 22. D. 
CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH. 
Azaleas and Camellias .—Get the seed pods and faded blooms picked 
off plants that have done flowering, and remove them as soon as 
convenient to a rather close warm house, to encourage free growth. 
Keep them well shaded, and the atmosphere as moist as possible, 
syringing the plants freely night and morning during bright weather. 
Plants which require more pot room should be shifted as soon as they 
are out of bloom, and the shoots nicely arranged, so as to cause the 
young wood to grow in its proper place and form; and weak back 
shoots not required for filling up the plant should be cut out, and the 
wood should not be left too thick. Young plants of new or other 
