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ning to turn brown, but the buds appear to be uninjured and the plants 
may recover. It has not suffered here before and for the last two or 
three years has been producing fruit in the Arboretum. The California 
Torreya (T. californica)^ which has been nursed along in a sheltered 
position for years and has suffered more or less every winter, appears 
to have at last entirely succumbed. Young plants in a sheltered posi- 
tion of the Japanese Cephalotaxus drupacea are little injured but the 
handsomer C. Fortunei from western China has suffered and it is 
doubtful if this fine tree will live through many years in this climate. 
Broad-leaved Evergreens. As it was natural to expect, the plants 
of this class have been more injured by the winter than any others, 
for with few exceptions they cannot be successfully grown in this 
climate under even the most favorable conditions. Ilex opaca, which 
has grown well in the Arboretum for many years where it has been 
the only broad-leaved evergreen tree which has lived here, has suffered 
seriously. Nearly all the leaves have been killed and some of the 
plants appear to be dead. The large plants of the Japanese Ilex cre- 
nata on Azalea Path, which were raised from seed at the Arboretum 
twenty-five years ago, have been so badly injured that it is doubtful 
if they can recover. The Inkberry {Ilex glabra), a common shrub in 
the region of the coast from New Hampshire to Texas, has lost the 
ends of many branches and most of its upper leaves. For more than 
twenty years there have been splendid specimens of this beautiful 
shrub in the Arboretum where it has never been injured before and 
has been considered one of the best evergreen shrubs which can be 
grown in this climate. Plants of an evergreen Holly {Ilex pedunculata), 
introduced by Wilson from western China and planted on Hickory Path 
near Centre Street, have, however, not been injured by the winter. 
This is a handsome tree with long-stalked red fruits, and is distrib- 
uted through Japan and western China. Judging by our experience 
here with other evergreen Hollies, the chances that it will ever grow 
to maturity are not very good. For the first time in the Arboretum 
there are brown leaves and dead branches and flower-buds on some of 
the Laurels {Kalmia latifolia). The damage is not serious but it is 
interesting as showing how the hardiest native plants, even when 
planted in exceptionally good positions, may be injured by a winter 
like the last which has killed also the ends of the branches of such 
common New England evergreen shrubs as the little Sheep Laurel 
{Kalmia angustifolia) and the Leather Leaf {Chamaedaphne calyculata). 
The leaves of Leucothoe Catesbaei are badly browned even on plants 
in moist shady positions which this species prefers. A native of the 
southern Appalachian forests, it has been considered one of the hardi- 
est and most satisfactory broad-leaved evergreens which could be 
planted in this climate. Leucothoe axillaris has also lost its leaves 
but will probably recover. Pieris or Andromeda Jioribunda is unin- 
jured and is now covered with flowers, and its condition confirms the 
belief here that this is one of the hardiest, handsomest and most de- 
sirable broad-leaved evergreen shrubs which can be grown in this part 
of the country. Its Japanese relative, Pierus japonica, seems equally 
hardy, but its larger and more beautiful flowers open earlier and are 
often injured by spring frosts. 
