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reports have already been explained (pp. 175-176). Those plants 
which are in the nursery are marked N. Many of these are being 
tested there for hardiness under Brooklyn conditions. 
The following Roman numerals are used to denote the character 
of the winter injury in 1933-34, and, in the cases of the last three, 
its extent. 
I. Entirely dead. (Roots and stems all killed.) 
IT. Killed to base. (Roots apparently sound; new basal shoots 
showing. ) 
II]. Percentage of main shoots killed. 
IV. Percentage of branch tips killed. 
V. levergreens: percentage of leaves killed. 
GYMNOSPERMAE 
Ginkgoaceae 
Ginkgo biloba—Uninjured 
Gnetaceae 
Ephedra 
distachya—sS. Eu., 
major var. procera “Uninjured 
Pinaccae 
S.W. Eu., Asia Minor—Shght brown- 
ing of tips of leaves. LK: ‘17-18; SKR: °19-20 
Araucaria araticana—Chile—I N 
Abies Nord 
Cedrus 
atlantica—N. Afr—IV_ shight—three specimens. Fair 
sized trees about 25 ft. high 
deodara—Himalayas—I P 
Libani—Asia Minor & Syria—Two specimens: one unin- 
jured, not P; other killed back about 144 way 
from tip of 2 main leaders. P; SKR: 717-18 
Chamaecyparis 
Japai ‘th side. K: °17-18 
(nana) SKR: °17-18; LK: °17-18; K: ’19-20 
obtusa 
