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zealous competitors, and with the fruit most carefully grown in that 

 vicinity. 



We have observed also, and noted as indicative of no small de- 

 gree of practical skill, that in various quarters of the garden are 

 standard trees, apples and pears especially, that have been trans- 

 planted from Boston, with large heads and trunks, six or eight inches 

 in diameter, and are now in a state of complete luxuriance and 

 fruitfulness. 



There are, of course, but few individuals who have the desire 

 and the means thus to weave a spell of freshness and beauty over a 

 spot which nature has created so stern and bald ; perhaps there are 

 still fewer who would have the courage to plan and carry out im- 

 provements of this kind, to the attainment of so beautiful a result, 

 in the very teeth of the elements. But there are many who may 

 learn something valuable from Mr. Tudor's labor in the cause of 

 Horticulture. There are, for example, hundreds along the sea-coasts, 

 to whom gardening of any sort is nearly impossible, from the inju- 

 rious effects of breezes loaded with salt water. There are, again, 

 many beautiful sites that we could name on the shores of some of 

 our great inland lakes, and the number is every day increasing, sites 

 where the soil is deep and excellent, and the skies warm and bright, 

 but the violence of the vernal and autumnal winds is suah, that tho 

 better culture of the orchard and garden makes little progress. 



In all such sites, Mr. Tudor's Nahant screens for sifting the air, 

 will at once obviate all the difficulty, temper the wind to the tender 

 buds, and make for the spot a soft climate in a naturally harsh and 

 bleak aspect. 



