Injuries from Wind-breaks. 71 



Epitome of injuries from wind-breaks (pp. 69, 70) : 



1. A wind-break may render a plantation colder 

 at certain times. 



2. Fruit immediately adjoining the wind-break is 

 apt to be much injured by insects and diseases, and 

 to be small and inferior in color. 



3. Trees immediately adjoining the wind-break 

 are often less thrifty than others. 



4. There may be greater damage from late spring 

 frosts in sheltered plantations. 



Statements of authors. In connection with the 

 foregoing reports, it will be well to review the 

 statements of various writers respecting the use of 

 wind-breaks: 



It [the fruit garden] should be screened on the north and the 

 east, either by high walls and fences, or, what is far better, either 

 by hills or a deep and dense border of evergreen or other forest 

 trees, intermixed with fruit trees and shrubs of ornament. Ken- 

 rick, New American Orchardist, IX. (1832]. 



As our native forests become cleared away the climate is 

 changed and becomes more harsh ; hence it is found desirable 

 to construct some kind of protection from the point of most 

 destructive harsh winds and storms. Belts of trees, either ever- 

 green or deciduous, or both mixed, and surrounding or placed so 

 as to screen from the northeast, north and northwest, are con- 

 sidered highly advantageous. Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of 

 America, 54. 



The atmospheric changes and conditions we cannot control, 

 and we can modify them only in a very limited degree, by 

 hedges, by timber belts, and by evergreen screens, the value of 

 which begins to be appreciated. Warder, American Pomology, 

 W7. 



