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culturist has 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. Eor 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, 1833, 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 

 shQots, 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 



