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The Principles of Fruit-growing. 



moist, are usually in themselves protectors of tender 

 plants. The following table, giving the average 

 temperature of different winds at New Haven, Con- 

 necticut, as compared with the mean temperature of 

 that place, shows that those winds which blow off 

 the Sound are much warmer than the land winds:* 



The mitigating influence of bodies of water is 



familiar; the following figures will serve to show 



the extent to which they modify the mean tempera- 

 ture of the four coldest months :t 



A. IN NEW YORK. 



*Loomis' Meteorology, 88. 



t Compiled from Blodget's Climatology of the United States, 38. 



