EFFECTS OF THE SEVERE WINTER. 



EFFECTS OF THE SEVERE WINTER ON RARE EVERGREENS. 



BY HENRY WINTHROP SARGENT, PISHKILL LANDING, N. Y. 



My Dear Sir — In compliance with your request to know the effect of the past severe 



winter upon the new evergreens, I give you the following result of my examination, first 



premising that nearly everything was entirely uncovered on the 2Gth December, when the 



thermometer was down to 13* below zero, and that from and after that time, until the 30th 



March, they were more or less protected by hemlock and cedar boughs, tied loosely upon 



three sides — that to the north being generally exposed. 



jlbies Sinithiana — (Iliminalayan Spruce) — Leaves either destroyed, or quite brown, ex- 

 cept on the lower branches, which, being more or less protected by snow, are quite 

 green; buds perfect; will no doubt prove quite hardy. I should say young plants 

 were but little if any more tender, than young Deodars. 



j^bies Douglasii — (the Deodar Cedar) — Somewhat burnt — not as much as j^. Smithiana. 



j^. Menziesii — Apparently uninjured and quite hardy. Color faded a little, like our na- 

 tive Arborvitae, which the spring will soon restore. 



Pinus Pinaster — Sadly cut up; color of brick dust. A plant ten feet high, unprotected, 

 except that the 11 o'clock sun is broken off; perfectly green and uninjured. 



Pinus Cembra — (Stone Pine) — Uninjured. 



Pinus Excclsa — Uninjured — quite as hardy, I should say, as our White Pine. 



Pinus Pumilis — Uninjured; hardy. 



Pinus Ponderosa — Greener, and even hardier than the P. Excelsa, and I think much 

 finer; in fact I esteem this rapid growing pine, from the banks of the Columbia 

 river, as in beauty, next to the Cryptomeria — with a deep green, and fine long 

 wand-like foliage, of six or seven inches. 



Pinus Sabiniana — Badly cut up. I should think if grown for several years on the north 

 side of an evergreen wood, that it would stand, and become a magnificent tree. It 

 has a foliage as long and as delicate as P. Ponderosa, but lighter green,, more like 

 the color of the Deodar. 



Pinus Gerardiana — Hardy. 



Pinus Lambertiana — Hardy. I can see but little difference between this and our White 

 Pine, (P. Strobus.) 



Pinus Mardta, or Maritiraa — Identical, it seems to me, with the Pinus Pinaster, and 

 quite as much cut up. 



Pinus Insignis — Hopeless; too tender for this latitude. 



Pinus Filifolia — Hopeless; (but beautiful.) 



Pinus Sylvestris — Of course, quite hardy. 



Pinus Aastriaca — Quite hardy, and very valuable. 



Picea Cephalonica — (Cephalonian Fir) — Uninjured, and very handsome. 



P. Pinsasso — (M't. Atlas Fir) — Uninjured, and very handsome. 



P. fVebbiana—(W ehh's Silver Fir)— Quite hardy. 



P. Pindrow — Hardy. 



P. Nobilis — (Noble Silver Fir) — Hardy. 



P. Pectriata — (European Silver Fir) — Hardy and beautiful. And now for the queen of 

 evergreens, the 



Cryptomeria Japonica — I am happy to say, that notwithstanding the thermometer being 



