Arboretum News 
During the early hours of November 28th, eastern 
Massachusetts was visited by an ice storm of unprecedented 
severity, and a larger number of trees have been destroyed or 
severely injured than by any other storm of which there is a 
record. The Arboretum has met with serious losses, but on the 
whole has fared better than several estates in its neighborhood. 
Ice The European Willows which marked the boundary between 
Storm the north meadow and the parkway are badly mutilated. This 
was one of the most attractive and interesting plantations in the 
Arboretum. Willows fortunately recover rapidly from such 
injuries, and at the end of two or three years the damage done 
to these trees should have disappeared. More serious is the 
injury to Birch trees, especially to the Canoe Birch (Betula 
papyrifera) and the River Birch {Betula nigra). The former 
have lost many upper branches, and it is doubtful if Birch trees 
injured in this way can regain the graceful habit which is their 
great beauty. The fine specimens of the River Birch from forty 
to forty-five years planted are badly split and broken, and many 
of them will have to be replanted. Some of the Silver Maples 
(Acer saccharinum) , especially those on the left hand side of the 
MeadoAv Road, are badly broken and their beauty spoiled. These 
trees grow rapidly and the injured trees can be replaced in a 
comparatively short time. Other Maples, with the exception of 
small trees of the Box Elder (Acer Negundo) and one plant of 
Acer tataricum, are practically uninjured. In the collection of 
Ash-trees all the specimens of the Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsyl- 
vanica var. lanceolata) are ruined. Ash trees of other species 
growing with them are uninjured. Of the Hickories only the 
Bitternuts (Carya cordiformis) and the Pignuts (Carya glabra) 
have lost branches; the other species are uninjured. A few of 
the Plum trees have lost large branches. The best Liquidambar 
in the collection is disfigured by the loss of branches, as is the 
fine specimen of the form of Ulmus pumila from central Asia, 
one of the most interesting trees in the Ulmus collection. A Pin 
Oak (Quercus palustris), the tallest Oak in the Arboretum 
raised here from an acorn and about seventy feet high, has lost 
fifteen or twenty feet of its stem. Of the Lindens only plants of 
the native Tilia glabra and of forms of the European Tilia 
vulgaria have lost enough branches to spoil their appearance. 
The branches of the Japanese Tree Lilacs (Syringa japonica) 
have proved brittle and the plants are badly injured. All Oak 
trees, with the exception of the Pin Oak already mentioned are 
uninjured, as are the Magnolias, Tulip-trees, Cercidiphyllums, 
Phellodendrons, Tupelo (Nyssa), Persimmons, Walnuts, Horn- 
beams, Beeches, Apples, Pears, Hawthorns and Mountain Ashes. 
Plants of Populus lauri folia are a good deal broken ; all other 
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