CHAP. I.J 



BERMUDAS TO MADEIRA. 



33 



injured and broken by a south-westerly gale. Experience has 

 now shown that larger crops may be procured with much great- 

 er certainty by dwarfing and sheltering the trees, and it has now 



Fig. 9.—Cryptomeria Japonica, iu the Garden of M. Jose do Canto, San Miguel. (Prom a 



photograph.) 



become a nearly universal practice to surround the rectangular 

 orchards or gardens, there called " quintas," with a lava wall ; 

 and, further, to break the wind still more effectually, to plant 

 within the wall a hedge of quickly growing evergreen -trees, 

 which is allowed to overtop it by twenty feet or so, and to scat- 

 ter tall evergreens wherever there is a clear space among the 

 orange-trees, which are pruned and regulated so as to keep well 

 below their level. 



These tall hedges, intersecting the country in all directions, 

 have a peculiar but rather agreeable effect. Almost all the 



II.— 3 



