This singularly beautiful and interesting plant, which is a native of the north island of New Zealand, where it attains a height of from 30 to 70 feet, has stood the winter at this place altogether unharmed. It was planted in the early part of Jane last year in a situation facing the south and somewhat sheltered from the northern and eastern winds. It had also the advantage of a covering of Fir boughs during the intensity of the frost in winter; that, however, had been discontinued for many weeks previous to the 24th of April, the period at which the frost proved so very destructive even to the hardiest trees of the country. The specimen I forward will show in what excellent condition this rare and Fern-like form, from a climate, too, from which little can be expected to be hardy, has withstood the severity of a spring almost unexampled in its severity. Janus Duncan, Basing Park, Hants. [This is the Kawaka of the New Zealanders, and certainly a very pretty shrub or tree.] - Gard. Chronicle.