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see plenty of orchards which have no shelter on these should-be-sheltered breaks—open places in the hedge and between the Walnuts—and here 
Bides ; so, perhaps, there s a lesson m my discoyery after all. Our I it is notable that in the line of the wind (the spring north-easters) which 
Fig. 53.— Veeonica longifolia subsessilis. 
orchard is protected from the north and north-east by a high undressed 
hedge and by a row of large Walnut trees. Occasionally there are 
have come tearing in through these breaks, the Apples are very few indeed, 
and those that are lie on the side away from the wind and where the tree 
