PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
JUNE, 1835. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ON THE EFFECTS OF SITUATION AND EXPOSURE ON 
DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
As by far the greater number of plants cultivated in this country 
are exotics, we find they are variously affected by the changeable 
weather of our climate, as well as by the attending circumstances of 
the situations they are destined to occupy. Our knowledge, acquired 
by experience, of the constitution of foreign plants, has supplied us with 
rules for our guidance in the distribution of them. If we happen to be 
acquainted with the native habitat of a plant, we can judge pretty 
accurately what place it is most likely to thrive in with us. Tropical 
plants, for instance, we place in the stove, or conservatory ; Australian, 
South African, Chinese, and South European, in the greenhouse ; and 
those from the northern parts of Asia, Europe and America, any where 
in the open air where we may have occasion for them, or which we 
may think best adapted for them. This is a very natural way of 
proceeding; but we are not always right in its application j some 
tropical plants are killed by placing and keeping them in the stove; 
because it is not so much the latitude whence they have been brought, 
as it is the elevation of their habitat above the level of the sea which 
determines their hardiness. Many plants are debilitated by con¬ 
finement in the green-house, and very many extra-tropical plants are 
lost from being placed in what is considered the warmest or most 
sheltered situation. 
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