542 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



evergreens have greatly suffered." English ivy and honeysuckle killed. 

 "Retinosporas badly damaged; privet killed to ground; barberries, 

 loniceras, clematis in variety are all badly hurt." Pyrus Japonica and 

 Spiraea injured. 



A nurseryman furnishes the following details. "The wood of the 

 Nectarines, Japan and Spanish chestnuts, English walnuts, fringe, hop- 

 tree, laburnum, sweet gum, althea, callicarpa, deutzia, honeysuckle, 

 Japanese hydrangea, jasmine, purple leaved plum, spiraea, viburnum, 

 box, holly, phyracanthus, yew, while a much longer list includes the 

 injured. Another grower writes: "All evergreens have been hurt 

 excepting the Colorado and Norway spruces and pines; many spiraeas 

 and scarlet oaks and shrubs in variety too numerous to mention." 



Somerset County. 



1. Catalpa. English walnuts badly frozen. 



2. Peach, pear, plum and cherry. "Peach trees of all ages badly 

 damaged." 



3. "Blackberry and raspberry canes entirely killed to snow line; 

 currants badly hurt." 



4. Wheat and rye and especially crimson clover. "Wheat and rye 

 injured on clay land." 



5. Spinach. "Lettuce in cold frames." 



6. Boxwood, roses, California privet, spiraea. "Rose of Sharon 

 almost killed to the ground." "Hybrid roses killed to the ground." 

 "Forsythia, deutzia and spiraea killed. 



Middlesex County. 



1. English walnuts. 



2. Peaches. 



3. Blackberries. 



6. California privet, box, English ivy, "Roses of all sorts." 

 A nurseryman furnishes the following detais. "The wood of the 

 English walnut and paper mulberry were more injured last winter than 

 I have seen before in perhaps half a century. Of apples and Japanese 

 hybrid plums only one year trees were materially injured. Of these 

 we find the following more or less killed back and the severity to 

 varieties was in the order named. Apples; Roxberry russet. Ladies' 

 sweet, R. L Greening, Ben Davis and Golden sweet. Japan plums; 

 Satsuma, Chebot. 



Monmouth County. 



1. Catalpa, oriental plane, Populus fastigiata and Carolina poplar. 

 "Possibly the damage to peaches may be attributed in part to the 



winter." 



2. Peach, plum, pears, apple. "Many young peach trees were killed." 

 "Bark bursted on body of some bearing apple trees. Peach trees 



