50 STATEN IsLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
killed down to the roots. Hedges of Manchurian privet did better 
than those of any other species, and in some parts of the island, 
especially where more or less protected, the bushes were not dam- 
aged to any great extent. 
Still more sensitive than the privet was the evergreen Japanese 
Euonymus, and four bushes that had flourished in the writer’s 
garden at St. George for a number of years were killed down to 
the ground by the severe cold of the winter. | 
The oriental sycamore suffered to some extent, and in a row of 
eleven trees on Hamilton Av., New Brighton, several were killed 
or much injured by the winter. Other trees of this species were 
killed on Bay St., Clifton, close to where it is crossed by the tracks 
of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad. Catalpas were like- 
wise injured, and one was killed at 136 Stuyvesant Place, St. 
George. 
A walk in Central Park, Manhattan, in June, disclosed the fact 
that many trees had been winter killed, particularly catalpas. A 
number of elms along the mall, or near it, had died, and one of 
these was being felled at the time of our visit. A park gardener 
stated that he had never known so many trees to die in any pre- 
vious winter. Many Lombardy poplars along Riverside Drive, 
Manhattan, were also killed. 
Nearly all of the medium-sized or large paper mulberry trees on 
the northern end of Staten Island were either killed or seriously 
damaged. Several large ones were killed on the grounds of the 
one-time Planters’ Hotel, corner of Bay and Grant streets; one 
nearly killed in the yard back of the Baltimore Flats, Tompkins- 
ville, and many killed and others badly damaged along Franklin 
Av., New Brighton. Several paper mulberries were also damaged 
in the garden of Mr. Charles W. Leng, 439 Clove Road, West 
New Brighton, 
Some pear and peach trees were killed, but in the small gardens 
on Staten Island the greatest economic loss seems to have been 
among the sweet cherry trees, and it is well within the limits to 
