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so that its being finished by the severe weather encountered last 
winter is not a surprise. Xanthoxylum schinifolium, from China 
and Japan, while in past years it has not proved entirely hardy, 
this winter was killed to the ground, but is now breaking some- 
what from the base. Xaxthoxylum Americanum, the prickly ash, 
is as vigorous as ever, as is Ptelea trifoliata, the three-leaved 
hoptree. 
In the box family, Buxaceae, the various forms of the common 
box, Buxus sempervirens, are badly killed above. Almost all of 
these are alive higher up on the southern side than on the north- 
western, a feature which will be discussed below. Small plants 
of B. Harland: and B. Japonica were entirely killed. The Cori- 
ariaceae are here represented by Coriaria myrtifolia, of the Medi- 
terranean region. This is always cut back to the ground during 
the winter and it of course met with the same fate again, but shoots 
from the base are coming up good and strong. In the Anacardia- 
ceae, the sumacs seemed to hold their own, with the exception of 
Rhus aromatica, one of two plants of which was killed. Cotznus 
Cotinus, the old world smoke tree, was killed almost to the 
ground, although frequently in the fruticetum it is badly nipped on 
the ends of the eee Rhus copaltinaand R. glabra, from our 
own country, a . Osbeckii, from China, are as vigorous as 
ever; the last ae is a particularly strong grower and a 
very showy member of the genus. 
In the holly family, Ilicaceae, //ex crenata, from Japan, was 
the worst to suffer, it being ade killed back, practically to the 
snow line, not only in the fruticetum, but in other parts of the 
grounds likewise. /. decidua, monticola and verticillata, all of 
the eastern mae States, fared much better, and were barely if 
at all touched. J. serrata, an Asiatic species, was badly killed 
on some oe Among the Celastraceae little if any damage 
was done. Under cultivation here are: Euonymus Bungeanus, 
Europaeus, alatus, Japonicus and radicans. 
In the Staphyleaceae the only species to succumb was Staphylea 
Coulombierit, which was killed to the ground, but is now sending 
up shoots from the base. Other species under cultivation, 5. 
Bumalda and S. trifolia, the latter quite common in a wild state 
