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In parks, ornamental coverts, and pleasure grounds, also in 

 orchards, rabbits have " tastes," as the following record of their 

 doings, aided by hares, during a severe winter, testify : 



TREES AND SHRUBS DAMAGED, OR INJURED, WHILST SNOW ON 

 THE GROUND FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. 



Destroyed by eating or peeling at or down to snow-line. Apple- 

 trees (some of thirty years' growth), Colchic and common laurels, 

 hemlock spruces, hollies, Irish heather (Dabczcia, syn. Menziesia 

 polifolia and varieties excellent fodder), Japan cedars, laurus- 

 tinuses, roses, skimmias, sweet bays, and yuccas. 



Shoots eaten and stems seriously injured. American oaks, ashes 

 (often barked), Austrian pine (badly), brooms (excellent fodder), 

 common silver fir (also Balm of Gilead and Frazer's), elms, ever- 

 green oaks, furze (capital food), heaths, holly-leaved berberry (good 

 fodder), horse-chestnut, junipers (much relished), laburnums (com- 

 monly barked), larches, limes, mountain ash, Norway maple, Nor- 

 way spruce, oaks, ornamental crabs and pears, poplars, Scots pine, 

 Spanish chestnut, sycamore, white and red cedars, and willows 

 (except bitter). 



Young growths nibbled or gnawed off. Araucaria imbricata, arbor 

 vitae (Thuia sp.), arbutus, Atlas cedar, aucubas, beeches (some- 

 times barked), berberises (deciduous and evergreen), Bhotan pine, 

 briars or wild roses (hips excellent food for birds), cotoneasters, 

 deciduous cypress, Deodar cedar, deutzias, diervillas (weigelias), 

 Douglas fir, English yews, euonymuses, flowering currants, for- 

 sythias, guelder roses, hypericums, ivies, Japan quinces, Lebanon 

 cedar, lilacs, mock oranges, Nordmann's silver fir, Portugal laurels, 

 Sequoia (Wellingtonia, gigantea), sweet briars (hips capital food 

 for birds), Swiss pine, whitethorn (Crataegus species and varieties 

 sometimes barked), wild service and Pyrus species and varieties 

 generally. 



Lightly nibbled or gnawed. Cherries, medlars, pears, and plums 

 (standard trees of a dozen years' growth), younger ones more or less 

 seriously injured. Abies (Picea) cephalonica, A. concolor, A. grandis, 

 A. nobilis, A. Pinsapo, blackthorn, Chamaecyparis (Cupressus 

 Lawsoniana and varieties), C. nutkaensis (Thuyopsis borealis), C. 

 (Retinospora) pisifera, dogwood, Picea (Abies), alba (white spruce), 

 and P. Menziesii (Menzies' spruce). 



Not injured. Alders, andromedas, birches, bitter willow, box, 

 Corsican pine, Irish yews, kalmias, periwinkles (greater and lesser), 

 excellent cover in deep shade, rhododendrons, azaleas and spurge 

 laurels. 



The observations refer to shrubs and trees of ordinary planting 

 size up to those of thirteen years' growth from planting. Recently 

 planted suffered most from the hares and rabbits, the degree of 



