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 atmospherie 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, 
207. 
