after a few days and began to fall. This dying of the leaves was 

 caused by the twisting of their stems, and not by the salt water 

 as many have supposed. 



The herbaceous plants were quite generally killed wherever the 

 salt water overflowed. The Bermuda grass, however, seemed 

 even benefited by the unusual bath. Continual rain for a week 

 after the storm washed off the salt and freshened the soil so that, 

 while the shrubbery was badly mangled and broken by the wind, 

 it suffered httle from sea water except where the tides kept the 

 overflow from draining off. About the Museum, for instance, 

 the water stood on the ground well through the day after the 

 storm, and where it banked up against the building all shrubs 

 rotted and died. Grass, canna plants, and the trees alone survived. 

 Between wind and water the city 's beautiful gardens were dreary 

 wrecks, but the wonderful recuperative power of nature was soon 

 manifest. Trees leafed out in the tender greens of spring, fruit 

 trees blossomed, and wistaria blooms again overhung the side- 

 walks. 



The trees which have suffered most are the elms and Carolina 

 poplars. As one-half of the street trees of the city are elms and 

 one-fourth poplars, this was to be expected, but a close examina- 

 tion proves that not only was the actual loss greatest among these 

 species but also the proportional loss. A possible greater sufferer 

 was the exotic China Tree, particularly the variety known as the 

 umbrella tree, which has heretofore been somewhat extensively 

 planted in Charleston gardens. Its wood was too brittle to resist 

 the wind. The elms and poplars suffered both from breakage 

 and uprooting. It may be of interest to quote from a communi- 

 cation received from Mr. John Randolph, formerly Davey tree ex- 

 pert for South Carolina and now superintendent of the Davey 

 Tree Company's work throughout the South, Mr. Randolph 

 visited Charleston particularly to study the effect of the storm 

 upon its trees. He refers to the CaroHna poplar, saying, "It is 

 only fair to the poplar to say that the uprooting of these trees in 

 nearly every case was directly the result of roots cut to allow the 



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