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exposed to the biting of the wind and the spray of the sea. The only shelter 

 they require is, at first, some interruption to break the current of the wind, such 

 as fences, houses, or other trees. " My experience convinces me," he says, " that 

 a tree will grow on the bank where the storm beats and the salt spray flies, if the 

 wind is not allowed a free passage." We shall again refer to this subject, and 

 show how almost every vegetable production is influenced by these same causes, 

 giving, as we think, the true theory of many failures in agriculture which have 

 as yet remained a mystery. Mr. Tudor invites others to come to Nahant and 

 see what has been done. " Nantucket," he says, " can as easily be covered vnth 

 trees as Nahant ; " and there is no one better qualified than himself, or more 

 ready to point out the way. 



Mr. Tudor began his tree planting with the balm of Gilead and willow ; rapid- 

 growing, hardy trees. These he selected to commence with, as he was desirous 

 to sit beneath the shade of trees of his own raising. Had he remembered that 

 tree planting almost surely conduces to longevity, he might not have despaired 

 of enjoying the shelter of an oak, over whose infancy he had watched. As he 

 has planted some of these noble trees, we hope he may live to see them grow 

 into vigorous manhood. Some forty years since, a gentleman of seventy com- 

 menced planting fi:uit and forest trees, not with the expectation of receiving 

 much benefit from them himself, but with the unselfish, noble desire to 

 benefit those who should come after him. As is too fi-equently the fact in 

 such cases, his neighbors ridiculed the undertaking, on the ground that it was 

 fooHsh to plant for others. In his case, however, they were disappointed, for he 

 has lived to enjoy his trees and his intellect to the ripe age of one hundred and 

 ten years, while they have all passed away. Besides poplars and wiUows, Mr. T. 

 is cultivating white and red oaks ; the latter a noble tree, and a very rapid grower. 

 The white oak may also be made to grow rapidly. The rate of growth of all 

 trees, however, depends very much upon management. 



He has the rock maple, also the red, white, and Norway maples. The Nor- 

 way maple, he observes, he has found very hardy, and peculiarly well adapted 

 to exposed localities. Of the graceful birch family he has the white variety, a 

 tree which the author has transplanted with success, and which he regards, in 



