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lime, mountain ash, horse chesnut and laburnum, had attained the height 

 of from eight to ten feet ; the spruce and Balm of Gilead firs were healthy, 

 and making fine shoots. Such of the shrubs, also, both deciduous and 

 evergreen, as had survived, are now thriving well; a manifest proof that the 

 mischief the plants had previously sustained was to be attributed more to 

 their exposure to the north and north-east winds beating upon the coast, than 

 to the sea spray. I found some of the trees, although within ten yards of the 

 reach of the tide, growing very freely on parts of the sloping bank, wherever 

 the soil was moderately free, and they were not so fully exposed to the violence 

 of the winds, in consequence of the current taking the higher level; and, at 

 the same distance from the sea, I observed strawberries really flourishing, 

 which, I was informed, had been planted five years, and had produced 

 abundantly. I may also mention, as corroborative of my opinion, that the 

 trees on the bank sloping down to the sea at Scarborough thrive remarkably 

 well, wherever they are at all sheltered from sweeping winds. 



Since, then, it is evident that shelter is of the utmost importance to 

 young plantations on the sea coast, I would recommend, in the first place, 

 that the ground be very thickly planted, keeping the black spruce, Austrian 

 pine, sycamore, Wych elm, common elder, and the willow, on the bleak sides. 

 In the next place, in the most exposed parts, I would have poles (not pleasing 

 objects, but expedients,) fixed firmly in the ground, and interwoven with good 

 hay or straw ropes, three or four inches apart ; and in other parts, such as 

 inner clumps or plantings, the usual hurdles, made of hazel or other cop- 

 pice rods, would be found very serviceable. These were extensively used at 

 a new place I laid out on the western coast, about half a mile from the 

 sea, in a situation a good deal exposed to the west wind. Protected in this 

 way, the trees and shrubs in general succeeded well ; and when the hurdles, 

 &c., were removed in the spring of the second and third years afterwards, 

 they appeared to sustain no injury. I would just notice, that great caution 

 must be observed in thinning plantations in such localities. It is best to 

 commence by lopping off the branches of those trees that are to be ultimately 

 removed; then, in a year or two, remove them altogether. This method 

 will prevent the adopted plants from being too suddenly exposed, and 

 will gradually inure them to greater severities. 



