3'2 THE CULTURE OF 



Advantages resulting from Skreens. 



morning and late evening sun, in hottest 

 days until near eleven, and after three 

 o'clock; and being in this northern expo- 

 sure favourably refreshed by the most friend- 

 ly shade during the violent heat of mid-day 

 sun, the entire crop may reasonably be sup- 

 posed to continue in one constant and uni- 

 form state of vegetation, without the liabi- 

 lity of blossoms falling off, or the young and 

 tender fruit being checked in their growth 

 by scorching sun ; calamities which fre- 

 quently occur in more exposed situations, 

 where if the summer proves hot and warm, 

 the most abundant waterings will prove of 

 little service either in setting blossoms or 

 procuring fruit, especially where the com- 

 mon mode of forming these beds has been 

 adopted, leaving the ground or pathway on 

 each side the lowest, which invariably runs 

 off the greater part of rain, and other watef 

 ings falling on the plants ; whereas, from beds 

 formed in the manner we have directed, 



