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very distinctly and handsomely laid on, foliage large and stout, a very 
fine variety ; and Beauty of Ribblesdale , bright golden green, with narrowisli 
well-defined vandyked zone of yellowish bronze, large bold leaves, and 
excellent habit. The following, in the same way, were also fine examples : 
— Model, Beauty of Colder dale, Princess Alice, and Perilla. All these were 
large and handsome specimens, that promise to make most effective bedders. 
Quo. 
THE EFFECTS OF THE FROST OF JANUARY, 1867. 
The temperature to-day (May 7th), has been 84 q in the shade, and 
the hot bright sun is bringing out the effects of the frost into much stronger 
relief. Many of the Coniferous plants before mentioned (see pp. 88, 94) 
as only slightly injured, are now quite dead; several standard Roses have 
gone off within the last week; and, in fact we are in a position now to be 
able to calculate with some degree of certainty as to the real amount of 
damage inflicted. 
In resuming my remarks, I am very sorry to have to record some sad 
losses in the Cypress tribe. Prominent amongst these stands the beautiful 
Cupressus Groveniana, from California, not one plant of which is spared 
to us, thus adding another proof to that afforded by Pinus insignis, that all 
the Californian species are not alike hardy. Cupressus macrocarpa, also 
from California, is very much injured, and in some few instances quite 
killed; but a large one, upwards of 30 feet high, is uninjured. Cupressus 
tliurifera and thurifera elegans from Mexico are quite killed. Several very 
fine trees of Cupressus torulosa, one nearly 40 feet high, are all gone. As 
this latter is an Indian species, it could scarcely be expected to survive where 
a Californian species had been obliged to succumb. This closes the list of 
our losses in the Coniferous family, and a sad blank they have produced 
wherever they have been planted in conspicuous positions for the attain¬ 
ment of certain effects. Sad as the tale is, however, I think we may rejoice 
that there are so many beautiful things left, which are perfectly reliable for 
their hardiness, and to which we must for the future look for effective 
planting. 
Amongst the minor losses occasioned by the frost are all the Noisette 
and Tea-scented Roses, as w T ell as several Bourbon and climbing Roses, all 
of which were killed to the ground ; the greater portion of them are indeed 
breaking up more or less vigorously, though the hot sun appears too much 
for many of them, as I perceive that several have gone back within the last 
week. In standards, as I before observed, several have failed to respond to 
the demand made upon them by the great increase of temperature, and I 
notice to-day that there are no signs of the white Banksian Rose breaking 
again. Hybrid Rhododendrons are very much injured indeed. Some of 
the earlier crosses with the Indian arboreum are quite killed, and of the 
later crosses, I observe that the nearer they approach either in foliage or 
habit to the Indian type, the more they are injured. I believe, also, that the 
bloom of almost all the varieties will be found very deficient, both in quality 
and quantity. Cotoneaster Simmonsii appears to be hardier than rotundifolia, 
or microphylla, as it is uninjured, while the latter are killed to the ground, 
but are breaking again. A sad loss is a very fine plant of Fabiana ira- 
bricata, 15 feet high, and which has stood in the same place for twenty-five 
years untouched; it always flowered very profusely, and, when in bloom 
was greatly admired. Near it, and against a south wall, stood a large plant 
