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can be clone, the creation of shelter will be a comparatively easy- 

 task. 



Assuming that on the side from whence the cold wind comes 

 we have raised a mound having an easy natural outline, on the 

 outer edge plant a deep band of the common Gorse, next might 

 come a mixture of the Wych Elm and the Austrian Pine. The 

 Elms shoidd be pruned, so as to make them dense of habit ; 

 and as they grow, both the Elms and the Pines will require thin- 

 ning, as thick planting in exposed places is necessary at first to 

 keep out the wind ; but if the plants are allowed to injure each 

 other by stealing each other's light and air, the planter's object 

 will be frustrated. Those having charge of plantations of trees 

 and shrubs have need of constant watchfulness, and especially is 

 this the case in planting for shelter. Having created a long belt 

 or wall of shrubs and trees, many things may be placed inside it 

 the planting of which would have been useless before the shelter 

 had been raised. Nearly all the common and many of the choice 

 things may be itlanted by the seaside if well sheltered by first 

 planting a substantial belt or mound of proved hardy shrubs. 

 Hollies, Ivies, Boxes, Barberries, Laurustines, Arbutus, Aucubas, 

 Magnolias, Escallonias, Euonymus, Evergreen Oaks, Japanese 

 Privets, Tamarisk, and Laurels may be safely planted. The 

 Cedar of Lebanon, the silver Mount Atlas Cedar, and many of the 

 smaller conifers, may occupy sheltered positions. 



The Chilian Pine (Araucaria imbricata) only feels really at 

 home in the maritime districts, and the Wellingtonia usually 

 thrives better by the seaside than in the midlands. All the 

 Cypresses, but specially Cupressus macrocarpa, may be planted. 

 Among deciduous things a veiy large selection might be made. 

 The Alders, Barberries, Thorns, Laburnums, Dogwoods, Deutzias, 

 Lilacs, Spindle Trees (Euonymus), and on the south and west 

 coasts the Hydrangeas, grow to a large size and flower abundantly. 

 Leycesteria formosa does well near the sea, and the Syringa or 

 Mock Orange, the Magnolias, the Sumachs, Ribes, and the 

 Robinias or Acacias, thrive in the sea air — only the wind breaks 

 and splinters the branches of the latter so badly in consequence of 

 their brittle natiu'e. Many of the Spiraeas will succeed, and the 

 Elders, including the variegated varieties, may stand in the front 

 rank. In sheltered nooks by the seaside many things will grow 

 better and with greater luxuriance than inland, in consequence of 

 the greater mildness of climate near to a body of water that never 

 freezes. A short time ago, when at Hastings, I saw a house within 

 a few yards of the sea covered completely with Magnoha grandi- 

 flora in the rudest health; another only a few yards away was 



