154 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EFFECT OF WINTER OF 1871-72, ON PLANTS, 



At GIpii Jiidffe, Di'dham, ahout nine niilos southivest of Boston. Estate of 

 Edicard S. Band, Jr. 



Rhododendron. — Caractacus. Leaves browned. 

 Charles Dickens. Uninjured. 

 Guido. Young wood and foliage killed. 

 H. H. Hunnewell. Young wood and foliage 



killed. 

 H. W. Sargent. Perfectly hardy. 

 James Bateman. Killed. 

 John Spencer. Badly cut up. 

 Lady Armstrong. Perfectly hardy. 

 Mrs. John Glutton. Foliage killed. 

 Mrs. Milner. Hardy. 

 Old Port. Somewhat injured. 

 Othello. Perfectly hardy. 

 R. S. Field. Very badly killed. 

 Scipio. Very badly killed. 

 Album elegans. Badly killed in some places, 



in others uninjured ; no invariable rule as 



to location. 

 Album grandijlorum. do. do. 



" Archimedes. Foliajje gone. 



" atrosanguineum. Uninjured. 

 Barcla^^anum. Very badly killed. 

 Blandyanum. " " " 



Brayanum. Killed to ground. 

 Chancellor. Foliage browned. 

 Bertie Parsons. Uninjured. 

 camlicUssivium (Parsens). Uninjured. 

 conressum. Killed to ground. 

 coriaceum. Uninjured. 



delicatisaimum. Young wood, buds and foli- 

 age killed. 

 Everestianum. Uninjured in some locations. 



Browned in others. 



