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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 

 mcreased in force till noon, when it blew quite a 

 gale, and continued so to do throughout the day. It 

 slackened a little during the night, and gradually 

 decreased in violence the next day, dying entirely 

 away by 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. Tt 

 had on a full crop of fruit, and a good supply of fine 

 young bearing-shoots, and was altogether in a most 

 thriving condition. Such, however, were the injuri- 

 ous effects of the wind, in dissipating all the accu- 

 mulated secretions of the foliage, and then closing, 

 almost hermetically, its pores, and thereby totally 

 deranging the vital functions of the plant, that, al- 

 though in the height of the growing season, not the 

 slightest appearance of renewed vegetation could be 

 discerned in any part of its leaves, shoots, or fruit, 

 until the third day of July, or twenty-two days after- 

 wards. It never produced another inch of good 

 bearing-wood throughout the remainder of the season, 

 but lingered in a very weak and sickly condition; 

 and the fruit, which had been previously estimated at 

 901bs. weight, did not exceed 551bs. when gathered, 

 and that of a very inferior description, in point of 

 flavor, and size of berry. Its leaves^ also, having 

 been thus crippled, were shed prematurely, a month 

 before their natural time, and hence the deficiency in 

 the flavor and size of the grapes. 



The other instance, which happened shortly after- 

 wards, is still more decisive. On the 30th of August 

 following, about eight o'clock in the evening, a strong 

 wind began to blow from the south-west, accom- 

 panied with heavy rain. At nine it blew violently, 

 and continued so to do until noon the next day. It 

 then slackened, and, veering to the north-west, died 

 away some time during the following night. 



