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LAMELLEN GARDEN, 1917. 
Contributed by E. J. P. Magor. 
The hard winter did a certain amount of damage in this garden, and several 
plants of the following species were killed : stenaulum, nematocalyx, 
Edgeworthii, Maddenii, bullatum and crassum ; whilst among the injured, 
but surviving, were plants of all the above, and Boothii, Dalhousi.$;, 
Kingianum, Zeylanicum, “ Lady Alice Fitzwilliam,” " Countess of 
Haddington,” and virgatum. 
The OXYPHYLLUM section, represented by stenaulum and nematocalyx, 
appears to be almost hopeless here, whilst bullatum and crassum do not seem 
much hardier than their Himalayan representatives, Edgeworthii and Maddenii. 
Rabbits again have attacked several species in addition to those I mentioned 
last year; such as chartophyllum pr^cox, cinnabarinum x Maddenii, 
prostratum, brachyanthum, zalucum, macrocephalum, indicum var . 
macrostemon, and Augustinii. Plants of Augustinii with stems as thick as 
an ordinary pencil being bitten off short, and a batch of seedlings of 
CHARTOPHYLLUM PR^cox Over 1^ feet high being in some cases eaten to ground 
level. 
But the three best plants of prostratum suffered most, although inside 
wire-netting ; for a half-grown rabbit devoted himself to these, and ate almost 
every leaf on them in two nights, leaving untouched fastigiatum, flavidum, 
HiPPOPH^oiDES, etc., which were all round them ; when with the help of my 
wife’s Pekinese—our only surviving dog—I succeeded in shooting him. About 
this prostratum there seems to be something particularly tastj^ for, besides 
rabbits, it is eagerly devoured b}'' small green caterpillars, which, by the way, 
seem fond of many Rhododendron seedlings in their first stages. Whilst on the 
subject of caterpillars, I have noticed two more enjo 3 dng the foliage of 
Rhododendrons ; one a very beautiful creature, green with black between two of 
the segments and tufts of pale yellow hair on its back. This I believe turns into 
the pale Tussock Moth (Orgygia pudibunda), and has been very numerous this 
year. The other is a much worse pest, an ugly olive or yellowish-brown animal, 
which is perhaps the caterpillar of the large yellow-underwing moth (Tr\'phoena 
pronuba). It feeds entirely at night, and will make great havoc in a bed of 
seedlings. I well remember my first encounter with one of these three or four 
years ago. I had noticed in one of my frames that a seedling was disappearing 
every night, and tried to catch the offender at various times as late as midnight 
and as early as 5 a.m. without success. At last, going up about 2.30 a.m., I found 
a new plant attacked and a leaf half underground, and digging round with a large 
pruning knife found my friend on the end of it, and the depredations ceased. 
Two supposed varieties of Azalea indica, sent home bj^ Forrest, bloomed 
for the first time ; one a straggling plant with very pale rose flowers, three in a 
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