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The Magazine of the Arnold Arboretum VOLUME 72 • NUMBER 4 The Magazine of the Arnold Arboretum VOLUME 72 • NUMBER 4 The Magazine of the Arnold Arboretum VOLUME 72 • NUMBER 4 • 2015 CONTENTS Arnoldia (ISSN 0004–2633; USPS 866–100) 2 The History of Minimum Temperatures is published quarterly by the Arnold Arboretum at the Arnold Arboretum: Variation in of Harvard University. Periodicals postage paid Time and Space at Boston, Massachusetts. Michael S. Dosmann Subscriptions are $20.00 per calendar year domestic, $25.00 foreign, payable in advance. 12 2014 Weather Summary Remittances may be made in U.S. dollars, by Sue A. Pfeiffer check drawn on a U.S. bank; by international money order; or by Visa, Mastercard, or American 20 Hamamelidaceae, Part 2: Express. Send orders, remittances, requests to Exploring the Witch-hazel Relatives purchase back issues, change-of-address notices, of the Arnold Arboretum and all other subscription-related communica- tions to Circulation Manager, Arnoldia, Arnold Andrew Gapinski Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130- 3500. Telephone 617.524.1718; fax 617.524.1418; 36 Pterostyrax hispidus, the Fragrant e-mail [email protected] Epaulette Tree Arnold Arboretum members receive a subscrip- Pamela J. Thompson tion to Arnoldia as a membership benefit. To become a member or receive more information, Front and back covers: After a stunningly cold and please call Wendy Krauss at 617.384.5766 or snowy winter in Boston, spring’s colorful flowers and email [email protected] fresh foliage will be especially welcome. The Malus collection on Peters Hill (with Hemlock Hill, the Postmaster: Send address changes to summit of Bussey Hill, and the Boston skyline in the Arnoldia Circulation Manager background) is seen in this image from early May, The Arnold Arboretum 2008. Photo by Nancy Rose. 125 Arborway Boston, MA 02130–3500 Inside front cover: The fragrant flowers of Magnolia ‘Judy Zuk’ (accession 183-2011) were in bloom last year Nancy Rose, Editor on May 19. This hybrid cultivar has M. acuminata, Andy Winther, Designer M. liliiflora,and M. stellata in its parentage. Photo by Editorial Committee Kyle Port. Phyllis Andersen Inside back cover: The pendent panicles of fringed Peter Del Tredici flowers on Pterostyrax hispidus lead to its common Michael S. Dosmann name, fragrant epaulette tree. Photo by Pamela J. William (Ned) Friedman Thompson. Kanchi N. Gandhi Copyright © 2015. The President and Fellows of Harvard College The History of Minimum Temperatures at the Arnold Arboretum: Variation in Time and Space Michael S. Dosmann iven the original charge to cultivate “all were different from those in the USDA’s, thus the trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, giving rise to confusion about a species’ cold Geither indigenous or exotic, which can tolerance, particularly when a species was sim- be raised in the open air,” it’s not surprising that ply said to be “hardy to Zone 6” without fur- the Arnold Arboretum has long been interested ther clarification—was it the Arnold’s Zone 6 in documenting local climate and weather, par- (average annual minimum temperature -5 to ticularly as they relate to plant hardiness. Early 5°F [-20.6 to -15°C]) or the USDA’s Zone 6 (-10 publications such as Garden and Forest and to 0°F [-23.3 to -17.8°C])? Arnoldia’s predecessor, the Bulletin of Popu- The Arnold Arboretum map was last updated lar Information, are replete with notes of what in 1971, and the now accepted industry stan- did and did not survive New England’s climate. dard, the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, is Arnoldia continues that theme with annual based on the principle of average annual mini- summaries of the previous year’s weather mum temperature. Although other climatic fac- (see page 12 in this issue), often with notes on tors (e.g., heat, rainfall, wind) certainly affect a plant performance. plant’s ability to survive in a given location, it One of the most innovative projects link- is the minimum temperature in winter that is ing plants and climate was Alfred Rehder’s a primary driver of plant survival. The Arbore- creation of the first Arnold Arboretum Hardi- tum lies within USDA Hardiness Zone 6. This ness Zone Map, which was published in the means that in most winters we can expect a first edition of hisManual of Cultivated Trees minimum temperature between -10 and 0°F, and Shrubs Hardy in North America (Rehder but it does not mean that temperatures lower 1927). On this map, Rehder divided the United than -10°F do not occur. States into eight different zones based on the Just as the Arboretum has been curating plant average minimum temperature of the cold- data for almost 150 years, it has also been gath- est month. Then, using information about ering and archiving weather data for nearly a what survived the winters in Boston and other century. Starting in 1918, William Judd, Arbo- regions, he assigned plants in his Manual to retum propagator at the time, began to collect particular Arnold Arboretum zones of maxi- and record weather statistics on a daily basis. mum hardiness. This novel application was He collected these data near the greenhouse, further updated and improved by the Arnold which at the time was located near the former Arboretum, and later inspired and gave rise to Bussey Institution and what is now the Mas- the hardiness zone map (see page 9) created and sachusetts State Laboratory near the Forest now perpetuated by the United States Depart- Hills train station. Judd diligently recorded the ment of Agriculture (USDA). (See Del Tredici data until his death in 1946, leaving us with 1990 for a broader review, as well as Dosmann a wonderful resource. In 1963, a new weather and Aiello 2013 for a brief discussion on the station was installed at the Dana Greenhouses 2012 version of the map and its application (which had been constructed the previous year) to plant acquisition and collections planning.) and the Arboretum began to collect data again It is important to bear in mind that the zone in earnest (Fordham 1970). In 2011, a new parameters in the Arnold Arboretum scheme state-of-the-art weather station was erected at Arboretum Microclimates 3 Location of Weather Stations at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 0 0.25 Mi Hunnewell JORDAN WOOD Visitor Center N ➣ Dana Greenhouses Bradley Rosaceous Collection Bussey Hill 198 ft. Arboretum and Bussey Institution Greenhouses Explorers Garden Hemlock Hill Weld Hill Research Building 170 ft. Weld Hill 175 ft. Peters Hill 240 ft. Weather Stations Years Active Current 2009–2014 1934–1935 1918–1946 Over almost a century the Arboretum has acquired temperature data from three permanent stations (William Judd’s measurements at the former Arboretum greenhouse [1918–1946]; the Dana Greenhouses; and the Weld Hill Research Building) as well as tempo- rary stations set up by Hugh Raup (1934–1935) and, most recently, data loggers located throughout the grounds (2009–2014). 4 Arnoldia 72/4 • April 2015 the Weld Hill Research Building, which, among the USDA Zone 6 range. However, there have other attributes, allows digital archiving of data been notable exceptions, including the bitter and access via the web. winters of 1933 and 1934 when Judd noted the Although there is a 17-year gap between the thermometer hitting -17 and -18°F (-27.2 and end of the Judd period and the beginning of -27.8°C), respectively. These were clearly Zone data collection at the Dana Greenhouses, the 5 (-20 to -10°F [-28.9 to -23.3°C]) winters, and long-term collection has yielded volumes of the Arboretum documented the death of plants information. One notable finding is the dra- that could not tolerate that extreme. It has matic variability over time in the extreme been thirty years since the Arboretum experi- minimum temperature events. The figure enced a Zone 5 winter, and it was borderline below depicts the temperatures from three (the Dana Greenhouse thermometer measured Arboretum weather stations; I also included -10°F). Since then, annual minimum tempera- the annual minimum temperatures recorded tures have remained in the Zone 6 range, with at the Blue Hill Observatory (elevation 635 a number of years experiencing even warmer feet [194 meters]) in Milton, Massachusetts, minimums. Are these due to climate change, or some 8 miles south of the Arboretum. (Blue urban heat island effect? Perhaps a combination Hill Observatory has been collecting weather of both. Do these trends place the Arboretum data since 1885 and is the oldest continuously in a new hardiness zone? I do not believe so. operating weather observatory in the United Even if 9 out of 10, or even 19 out of 20 winters States.) At the Arboretum, annual minimum never creep below 0°F (i.e., are in the Zone 7 temperatures have, by and large, stayed within range), all it takes is one Zone 6 winter to elimi- Blue Hill Observatory William Judd Dana Greenhouse Weld Hill 10 5 0 -5 -10 -15 Minimum Temperature (F°) Temperature Minimum -20 -25 1884 1897 1910 1923 1936 1949 1962 1975 1988 2001 2014 Year Annual minimum temperatures from the three permanent stations at the Arboretum, plus the annual minimum temperatures recorded since 1885 at the Blue Hill Observatory for comparison. Arboretum Microclimates 5 nate those plants unable to survive at those that the present Weld Hill and Dana Green- temperatures. It pays to be conservative when house stations are sufficiently far away from playing the hardiness game. buildings not to be influenced by them, we are not exactly sure where Judd’s station was—it Location, Location, Location may have been somewhat protected. The Arbo- In examining nearly a century of annual varia- retum landscape comprises some 281 acres, tion in minimum temperature at the Arbore- with elevations that range from 44 feet (13.4 tum, one must bear in mind that those data meters) above sea level in the Meadow by the were obtained from three separate and distinct Hunnewell Building to 240 feet (73.2 meters) on locations, each with its own elevation and prox- the summit of Peters Hill.
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