Florida Agricultural Experiment Station


posed and unprotected groves along the coast, which may at
times be inundated by salt water. Where the damage is confined
to wind whipping the injury is especially prevalent on the ex-
posed sides of the trees on the outermost row and decreases
rapidly on the rows more remote from the exposed margin,
which are better protected by the intervening rows of trees.


Fig. 90.-Orange tree almost completely defoliated on side exposed to
 wind during hurricane.


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