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3. Raspberries and blackberries. 



4. Wheat and rye. "Wlieat in flat places badly frozen." 



6. Boxwood, English ivy badly. Roses, honeysuckle, hydrangias. 

 "All boxwood badly frozen." 



Essex County. 



1. Sweet Gum (Liquidamber) willow-leaved oak, catalpa and tulip. 

 "Cedar trees have been killed by the cold winter." 



2. Apple, quince and peach. "Peach trees damaged and some killed." 

 "One and two year old peach trees injured but not killed." 



3. Blackberries and raspberries. "Raspberries, but not badly." 



5. Asparagus. 



6. Cupressus, Nordmann's fir, deutzia, , spiraea, ,f;alacanthus. "Some 

 of most of the large growing shrubs." "All European hollies. Many 

 rhododendrons and evergreens." "Box of all kinds suffered badly." 

 "The tops of many hedges were killed and in some cases the whole 

 f.hrub." "English ivy lost nearly all its foliage and the terminal 

 branches were killed." "Hovey's Golden arbor vitae, wistaria, trumpet 

 vine killed." "Privet hedges injured badly." "Hollyhocks digitalis 

 and rose of Sharon nearly all killed." 



- ' Hudson County. 



1. Shrubs "heeled in" were nearly all killed, one half way down to 

 the roots." 



6. Hollyhocks unprotected suffered badly. 



Hunterdon County. 



1. "Chestnut sprouts in isolated cases." 



2. "Peachea affected most." "Nursery peaches injured but not 

 seriously." 



3. Currants and gooseberries. "Blackberries mostly killed." 



4. "Wheat on northern exposure." 



6. Boxwood. Osage orange hedge. "Honeysuckle half dead." 



Union County. 



1. "Gum, plain, hemlock, spruce and catalpa." 



2. Peach, quince, cherry, apricot, nectarines, and some European 

 and Japanese plums, also Japanese chestnuts." "Some apples, nearly all 

 peaches, grape vines suffered considerably." "Raspberries and some 

 varieties of grapes." 



3. Currants and gooseberries injured and nearly all blackberries 

 killed." 



4. "Scarlet clover nearly all killed." 



C. Viburnums, almost all conifers and boxwoods and broad leaved 



