190 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



open fences, made of roijgh. slafs or palings, nailed Ih the common 

 vertical manner, about three inches wide, and a space of a couple 

 of inches left between them. These paling fences are about sixteen 

 feet high, and usually form a double row (on the 'most exposed side 

 a triple rpw), round the whole garden. The distance between that 

 on the outer boundary and the next interior one is about four feet. 

 The garden is also intersected here and there by tall trellis fences 

 of the same tind, all of which help to increase the shelter, while 

 some of those in the interior serve as frames for training trees 

 upon. 



The'eiect of this double or triple barrier of'high paling is mar- 

 vellous. ' Although like a common paling, apparehtly open and per- 

 mitting the wind fi-ee passage, yet in practice^it is fqjind entirely 

 to rob the gales of their violence, and their saltiless. To use Mr. 

 Tudor's words, " it completely sifts the air." After' great storms, 

 when the outer barrier will be found covered with a coating, of salt, 

 the. foliage in the garden is entirely uninjured. It acts, in short, 

 like a nistic veil, that admits just so -much of the air, and in such a 

 manner as most to promote the growth of the trees, while it breats 

 and wards off all the' deleterious influences of a genuine ocean 

 breeze — so pernicious to tender leaves and shoots. 



Again, regarding the luxuriant growth, which surprised us in a 

 place naturally a sterile gravel, we were greatly struck with the ad-,, 

 ditional argument which .it furnished us with in support of our fa- 

 vorite theory of the value of trenching in this climate. Mr. Tudor 

 has, at incredible labor, trenched and manured the soil of his garden 

 three feet deep. The consequence of this is, that, although it is 

 mainly of a light, porous texture, yet the depth to which it has been 

 stirred and cultivated, renders it proof against the effects of drouth. 

 In the hottest and driest seasons, the growth here is kixuriant, and 

 no better proof can be desired of the great value of thoroughly 

 treidohing, as the first and indispensable foundation of all good cul- 

 ture, even in thin and poor soils. 



It is worthy-of record, among the results of Ws. Tudor's culture, 

 that, two years after the principal plantation of his fruit-trees was 

 made, he carried off th^ second prize for pears, at the annual exhi- 

 bition. of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, among dozens of 



