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culturist lias any doubt. Even the oak-tree has 

 been proved by a well directed series of experiments, 

 to be benefited by shelter in the comparatively mild 

 climate of England. For the rationale of the evil 

 effects of wind on plants in general, we must refer 

 the reader to Lindley's " Theory and Practice of Hor- 

 ticulture." The following cases are detailed by Hoare : 



" Many instances might be circumstantially de- 

 tailed of the injurious effects of wind upon established 

 vines during their summer's growth ; two, however, 

 of recent occurrence will perhaps suffice. 



" On the eleventh of June, 1 833, a strong wind 

 sprang up early in the morning from the west, and 

 increased in force till noon, when it blew quite a gale 

 and continued to do so throughout the day. It slack- 

 ened a little during the night, and gradually de- 

 creased in violence the next day, dying entirely away 

 in the evening. 



"The effects of this wind on a vine of the White 

 Muscadine sort, trained on a wall having a western 

 aspect, were carefully observed. It had on a full 

 crop of fruit and a good supply of fine young bearing 

 ehoots, and was altogether in a most thriving condi- 

 tion. Such, however, were the injurious effects of 

 the wind in dissipating all the accumulated secretions 

 of the foliage, and then closing, almost hermetically, 

 its pores, and thereby totally deranging the vital 



