80 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:* 
Direction of Average above the Direction of | Average under the 
wind. mean temp. wind. mean temp. 
Southwest ..... + 4° Northeast..... — .6° 
South. vcs. ces + 3.2° West ........- —1,1° 
Southwest ..... + 1.2° Northives os.eva% — 2.7° 
Bastin. esos vas + «5° Northwest.... — 4.5° 
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. 
STATIONS. Dee. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. avers uate HlGN a oenae bag 
age. tude. tion. | observation. 
Fredonia..... 30.8 | 28.7 | 27.4 | 35.3 | 30.55 ) 42.26° | 709 ft.; 1830-1848 
Pe 1830 
Rochester....| 28.5 | 26. | 26.4 | 33.1!28.5 | 43.07° | 506 ‘“ {1632-1858 
Auburn ...... 29.5 | 24.4 | 24.6 | 33.5 | 28, 42.55° | 650 ‘*| 1827-1849 
Utica ........ 26.8 | 23.3 | 23.4 | 32.3 | 26.45 | 43.06°| 473 “| 1826-1848 
* Loomis’ Meteorology, 88. 
+Compiled from Blodget’s Climatology of the United States, 38, 
