. The effects of desiccating winds on citrus trees . Fig. 13.—Orange leaves showing scorch produced by windstorm on November 23, 1924. Photograph made 16 days later. There was no windburn or scorch in the citrus groves in 1926 but there was serious mechanical injury from a windstorm on December 23 and 24 when branches were broken and trees uprooted by the wind. The wind followed a storm which gave some precipitation of rain on the lowlands and of snow in the adjacent mountains, thus affording a certain amount of atmospheric humidity. At the Citrus

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