ICAQUILLOS, STRUCK 3 YEARS AGO, THRIVE AS ELMS TOPPLE

Three years ago today the Harvard Botanical Gardens, in Soledad, Cuba, suffered their last severe hurricane. Until now it has always been the stately quiebra-haches, the guayacans, the icaquillos, and the beautiful coibas, which have bowed to the winds, while the elms in Cambridge lived on unscathed.

In 1919, 1926, and 1927, the gardens were reported "in an unfortunate condition." In September, 1929, "the avenues of royal pinon and taberind were dashed to the ground," and on this date in 1935, according to the CRIMSON, "many of the buildings were razed, and the greater part of the garden stock was severely injured. The storm stripped the citrus trees of their fruit and about 300 specimens were badly damaged."