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trees will undoubtedly put out new 

 leaves. Their spring beauty, however, 

 is spoiled, and much losses of foliage 

 will check their growth which up to 

 two years ago had been more rapid 

 than that of any other conifer in tlie 

 collection. 



Two years ago the numerous speci- 

 mens in the Arboretum of the Black 

 Pine of Japan (Pinus Thunbergii) lost 

 much of their foliage and the trees 

 look even worse now than they did 

 two years ago. The buds are gen- 

 erally alive, but it will be a lona: time 

 before these trees regain their former 



vigor. This Black Pine is a southern 

 sea-level tree and in this country is 

 more picturesque than beautiful, in 

 Tokyo, however, and by the sides of 

 the great southern Japanese shore 

 highway there are magnificent speci- 

 mens. Raised at the Arboretum from 

 seeds planted in 1893, Pinus Thun- 

 bergii was never injured here until 

 the cold of the winter of 1917-18 

 ruined its foliage. The short-leaved 

 southern Pine (Pinus echinata) has 

 lost many leaves again as it did two 

 years a.go; and although this valuable 

 tree finds its northern home on Staten 



Island and Long Island, New York, it 

 will probably never gi-ow to a large 

 size here or prove Itself important 

 Cor the decoration of northern parks. 

 The oldest specimen in the collection 

 was raised here in 1879 from seeds 

 collected at the Peaks of Otter in Vir- 

 ginia and has buffered less than the 

 younger trees raised from Staten 

 Island seeds. 



Young plants of the Mexic^in White 

 Pine (Pinus ayacahuite) which have 

 been growing in the Arboretum for 

 several years and have not before 

 been injured by cold look as if they 

 had been browned by fire and will 

 lirobably die. Small plants of Abies 

 magniflca, the great Red Fir of the 

 California Sierra Nevada, and A. 

 cephalonica var. Apollinis, from south- 

 eastern Europe, both trees of doubt- 

 ful hardiness, are killed; and of the 

 three trees of the California form of 

 Abies concolor the A. Lowiana of 

 English nursei-ymen and the A. Par- 

 sonsii of some American gardens, the 

 leaves of two are for the first time 

 badly browned, while those of the 

 third are uninjured. Here and there 

 a branch with brown leaves appears 

 in the Pinetum, but on the whole the ' 

 collection of conifers is in better con- 

 dition than might have been exiiected. 

 Among the trees which do not grow 

 naturally in New England three are 

 now conspicuous by the freshness and 

 beauty of their foliage: these three 

 trees are the Hemlock from the high 

 mountains of the Carolinas (Tsuga 

 carolinlana). the Spruce-tree of the 

 Balkan Peninsula (Picea omorika). 

 and a Japanese Fir-tree. Abies hom- 

 olepis (or brachypbylla). The last is 

 a tree of dense habit, dark green 

 leaves and purple cones; it must not 

 be confused with another Japanese 

 Fir-tree which botanists consider a 

 variety of it and now call A. homo- 

 lopis var. umbellata. This is a faster 

 growing tree of open habit, with light 

 green leaves and gray cones. It is 

 less hardy than the typical form, and 

 leaves on most of the specimens in 

 the Arboretum have been browned 

 during the past winter as they were 

 two years ago. Except in general col- 

 lections and as a curiosity this va- 

 riety is not worth planting. 



