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Laura E. Watson BENEDICT 
WEA hE. WINTER: OF 1916 DID TO THE GARDEN 
EVERGREEN COLLECTIONS 
During the last two decades there has been no such disastrous 
winter for evergreens as we experienced in January, February 
and March of this year. A recent checking of the coniferous col- 
lections shows the Garden’s loss to have been over eighty speci- 
men plants, valued at somewhat over six hundred dollars. 
In the juniper collection, Juniperus chinensis Fortunei, J. com- 
munis, J. suecia, J. sabina fastigiata, J. pachyphloea glauca (3), 
and J. neaboriensis were killed, while such a supposedly hardy 
species as J. rigida, of Japan, was badly winter-killed. It is now 
(August) growing vigorously. Near these is our best specimen 
of Cryptomeria japonica, now nine feet high, which was fortu- 
nately only slightly winter-killed and is now growing well. 
Sequoia gigantea was more “burned” than usual during the win- 
ter, but 1s recovering satisfactorily. 
Among the arbor vitaes, nearly all derived from two perfectly 
hardy species, one American and the other Japanese, there has 
been heavy loss. In Thuja occidentalis argentea, one specimen 
is slightly winter-killed but is making only poor recovery, and the 
other two specimens were cut back from about six feet to one foot, 
