Effects of Wind. 51 



culture, and if the planter has unfortunately selected 

 a block thus circumstanced that is to say, fully 

 exposed to either monsoon such will probably be 

 the wisest course to follow. 



Wind injures the plants in various ways. Some- 

 times its effects are at once recognizable in the 

 pinched, stunted, and almost frost-bitten look both of 

 the wood and leaves, the former being hard and 

 small, the latter crumpled, dwarfed, and tipped with 

 yellow. In other cases, the trees will be found 

 denuded of leaves, on the side on which they are 

 assailed, forming on the opposite one a growth 

 somewhat like that of boxwood. In situations 

 where the soil is soft and yielding, the wind, even if 

 failing to strip the trees of leaves, does equal 

 mischief by working the stems in the ground, so 

 that in a short time a funnel is formed round the 

 neck cf the plant, and this being continually chafed, 

 in process of time the bark is worn off, the roots 

 are loosened, and the plant dies. A plant thus 

 affected is said to be " wind-wrung." Should it, 

 however, be rescued before the bark is entirely 

 worn off, the plant will sometimes recover, though 

 its growth will of course have been seriously inter- 

 fered with, and it will be extremely liable to be 

 attacked by " bug," " worm," or any other blight 

 prevalent in the locality. 



In wind-blown situations, however, if the mischief 

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