42 OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE. 



trellis fences of the same kind, all of which help to 

 increase the shelter, while some of those in the inte- 

 rior serve as frames for traijiing trees upon. 



" The effect of this double or triple barrier of high 

 paling is marvellous ; although like a common paling, 

 apparently open and permitting the wind a free pas- 

 sage, yet in practice it is found entirely to rob the 

 gales of their violence and their saltness. To use 

 Mr. Tudor's words, ' it completely sifts the air.' After 

 great storms, when the outer barrier will be found 

 covered with a coating of salt, the foliage in the 

 garden is entirely uninjured. It acts, in short, like a 

 rustic veil, that admits just so much of the air, and in 

 such a manner as most to promote the growth of the 

 trees, while it breaks and wards off all the deleteri- 

 ous influences of a genuine ocean breeze, so pernicious 

 to tender leaves and shoots.' 



"It is worthy of record, among the results of Mr. 

 Tudor's culture, that two years after the principal 

 plantation of his fruit trees was made, he carried off 

 the second prize for pears at the annual exhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, among dozens 

 of zealous competitors, and with the fruit most care- 

 fully grown in that vicinity." 



Of the necessity for shelter under circumstances far 

 less desperate than those at Nahant, no good horti- 



