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one plant survived and is breaking rather weakly from the base 
Other species under cultivation which were barely, if at all, hurt 
are: Rubus rhamnifolius, nigrobaccus (the common highbush 
blackberry), deliciosus, parviflorus, Alleghemensts, odoratus and 
parvifolius, That showy shrub, Exochorda grandifiora, from 
China, was badly hurt. There are two specimens in the fruti- 
on 
e other some of the stems are alive way up to the tip, and 
others killed almost to the base. This same species is grow- 
ing in the border at the approach to the elevated railroad, a 
somewhat more sheltered position, where it was not at all in- 
injured ; these plants moreover were set out in the fall of 1902 
have not been disturbed since; these two factors may ac- 
count for their apparent greater hardiness Stephanandra flex- 
uosa, from Japan, was killed nearly to the ground. In the 
border referred to immediately above are several plants of this 
species, and these were also badly damaged, being killed about 
one half way back. ervia Japonica, also a Japanese plant, in 
both the a and double-flowered forms, was killed almost to 
the ground, both in the fruticetum and at the elevated approach. 
Rhodotypos kerrioides, another Japanese shrub, although sub- 
jected to the same conditions in the fruticetum as were the ker- 
rias, escaped entir tirely. Neviusia Alabamensis, known only from 
a small area in Alabama and one of the rarest of shrubs, was 
somewhat hurt, but not as much as some of the Japanese things 
referred to above, which one would expect to be more hardy. 
mong the spiraeas, Sfzraca Japonica and its varieties, ranging 
from the Himalayan region to Japan, S. nee from China, 
S. canescens, from the Himalayan region, and S. Bumalda, a 
hybrid between Japonica and albiflora, were all killed back to the 
snow line ; while S. Douwg/asii was killed back about one half way. 
The spiraeas which escaped are: S. alba, lati iia ve unifolia (the 
double-flowered form), crenata, bracteata, , Margaritae, 
albiflora, pubescens, arguta, Mensiesit, ae ae Seite Van 
Houttei, Pikoviensis, Cantoniensis and trilobata. Two Deca looks 
to the spiraeas, and often included with them, | 
damaged ; these are Sorbaria sorbifolia and S. Lindleyana, both 
