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it was the winter's sun. We have plants of the same variety, in equally 

 good condition, equally exposed to the sun, growing so near that the foli- 

 age touches; the one is all cut up, the other uninjured. And we may 

 make the same reply to the theory that the damage was caused by the 

 winter's cold or wind. What peculiar atmospheric action has, then, been 

 in operation to cause such injury.'' It is not alone manifested upon Ameri- 

 can plants, but is marked in its effect upon evergreens. Hemlocks have 

 generally escaped uninjured ; but white pines have in many cases suffered 

 severely, and we have many pitch pines thirty feet high wholly killed. 



ArborvitEe hedges never suffered more, and show as masses of yellow, or 

 large patches of killed foliage. 



Our theories are at fault, and therefore, having presented the facts, we 

 close with a recital of our e.xperience with species and varieties. 



Rhododendrons ferrugineum azaleoides and punciaium, uninjured 1868 ; 

 foliage killed 1869. 



R. Due dj Brabant, killed 1868 and 1869. Unquestionably a tender rho- 

 dodendron, although it stood 1866 and 1867, ^''^s foliage only being some- 

 what injured. 



R. luciduin, killed to the ground 1868, foliage killed 1869. Too tender 

 for general cultivation. 



R. f.rrugineutn, unhurt 1868, foliage killed 1869. 



R. Paxtoni, killed 1868, foliage hurt 1869 ; but plants had previously 

 stood uninjured for five years, and bloomed finely. 



R.fasiiiosnm, foliage killed 1868 ; plants killed to the ground in 1869, 

 which had stood three years previously, in rather a sheltered place, how- 

 ever. 



R. purpiireum grandijlorum, uninjured 1868 ; killed, or foliage injured, 

 1869. 



R. Nero, killed 1868 ; uninjured 1869. 



R. giganteiim, gloriosiim, and Lefevreanum, all hardy 1868 and 1869. 



R. splendidum, foliage somewhat browned. 



R. Reedianum, killed to the ground ; doubtless tender. 



R. maculatmn nigrum, foliage much cut up, flower-buds and young wood 

 killed. 



R. Hendersoni, foliage and flower-buds killed. 



