/Oo The your nal of Forestry. 



recent writer, who refers to the climatic changes the country has 

 evidently undergone owing to disafforestment :* — 



" The destruction is truly pitiable, and the plains and low hills are 

 for the most part denuded of trees. If wood is wanted for a fire, the 

 nearest trunk is mangled with an axe to provide it ; and if there is a 

 ready sale for the ' wood, down come the trees wholesale, without a 

 thought of the future. The idea of planting trees never enters into 

 the head of Turk, Greek, or Bulgarian. It would be a present outlay 

 for the benefit of posterity, which would appear to every one as the 

 act of a lunatic." 



Hedgerow Trees. 



The kinds of trees best fitted for hedgerows are the oak, elm, 

 particularly the narrow-leaved, sycamore, black Italian poplar, chestnut, 

 maple, larch, and Scots fir. In high or exposed situations the hardier 

 sorts should be chosen, such as the sycamore, birch, larch, Scots fir, and I 

 should recommend planting pretty thickly at first, say from 10 to 15 yards 

 asunder, and when grown up, let them be thinned out if necessary. In 

 lower situated grounds from 20 to 30 yards apart is a good distance ; in 

 small enclosures, surrounded by larger that are well planted, fewer still are 

 wanted ; observing to plant thickest on the east and north sides of the 

 fields, as the winds from these points are generally keenest and most 

 destructive to vegetation. The lands exposed to the sea breeze from any 

 point should be thoroughly protected. The black Italian poplar is an 

 excellent sort for hedgerows, being much quicker of growtli than the 

 othei'S, and furnishing a wood now in^great repute. A few Scotch firs dotted 

 along the hedgerows among the deciduous trees would have a pleasing 

 effect to the eye, and answer the purpose of shelter equally well wnth 

 the other kinds. In those districts where coal is scarce the loppings of 

 the hedgerow trees would be a valuable consideration to the tenant as fuel. 

 AVith regard to the expense of planting, it is so trifling a consideration, 

 compared to the advantages this plan holds forth, that it is not worth 

 taking into account, as two or three men would, in a very short time, plant 

 a large estate, and I am quite sure that many estates, especially in the 

 north, would repay to have much more hedge, ow timber than they possess 

 at present. — William Peebles, Forester, G:rrimony, Lircrness, 



*^Baker's " Modern Turkey in 1877." 



