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again. Near the firs are the cedars, where Cedrus atlantica died 
and others of the same species, but older, are alive and healthy. 
Cedrus Deodara seems to be making only a feeble recovery. The 
spruces are also in a similar situation where there is considerable 
exposure to wind. Only Picea pungens glauca was rather winter- 
killed, two unnamed species, here since IQII, are dead, but all 
the others seem fairly healthy. 
A study of the weather reports for January, February and 
March shows a curious reversal of ordinary winter weather in 
1916. January was more than six degrees warmer than the 
normal, while rain and snow were 2.7 inches below normal. On 
January 27 the maximum temperature was 69°, a nearly fatal 
condition of itself without the inclemencies that were to follow 
in February and March. On January 14, 17, 22, 23, and 28 there 
were winds of from 51 to 62 miles per hour. This coupled with 
the warmth and slight rainfall was a poor preparation for Feb- 
ruary. The latter month began, on the first, with another high 
temperature of 61° ; the average temperature, however, was 1.7° 
below normal. There were terrific winds on February 7, 18, 19, 
26, 27, 28, varying from 53 to 75 miles per hour, and there was 
about the usual precipitation. In other words, our conifers had, 
up to March first, withstood a warm, dry January, a slightly 
colder, but scarcely more moist February, to the accompaniment 
of violent winds during both months. It was in March, however, 
that the climax of bad weather was reached. Throughout the 
month the temperature averaged 5.3° below the normal, the pre- 
cipitation was only about normal and the January deficiency was 
never recovered until April, when it was too late. After a period 
of comparatively mild weather the lowest temperature of the 
winter was reached on March 18 when, with the thermometer 
hovering between 7° and 10° above zero, the wind blew almost 
sixty miles an hour. This undoubtedly proved the climax in a 
period of bad weather, the effects of which it will take the Garden 
many years to repair. 
NorMAN TAYLOR. 
