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the lowland districts oi Port Koval ana St. 
Andrews ami who sought, employment in the 
upper part of Saint David’s, after the emanci¬ 
pation, were much astonished, and felt them¬ 
selves at a loss in the use of the knife on the 
fields to which they had transferred their labor, 
and they therefore made but indifferent pruners. 
A severe pruning in St. Thomas in the Vale 
would be attended with injurious results. Though 
that parish is exceedingly damp, embedded in 
fogs, and visited with continual rains, still it 
>s highly remarkable thafca moderate St. David’s 
pruning would entirely ruin the field to which 
rlie system might be applied. While I was in 
•Aiat. parish my attention was directed to an ex¬ 
tensive field, which had been entirely ruined, and 
is now thrown up, by this injudicious course of 
management. 
A question was put to ra? a few weeks ago 
by a gentleman who held the attorneyship of 
an extensive Coffee property highly situated,— 
he desired to know whether it would nos be 
advisable to allow a field, which was exposed 
to the north wind, and lately piuned, to re¬ 
main with its matted young wood till after 
ihe spring of next year, in order to protect it 
from serious injury at that period when the 
north winds are so prevalent. My answer then 
just brings me to a consideration of what is 
termed "wintering / 3 I replied that unless the 
field was well opened, so as to preserve a free 
circulation of air, and permit the rays of the 
sun to strike into the heart of the trees, to 
create some warmth, the field would most as¬ 
suredly winter, should the weather be severe in 
C>e fall of the year: and, in such a. ase. the, 
pnr ,yg would he rendered wholiv vaV 
