CHAPTER VIII. 



SITUATION AND SELECTION" OF VARIETIES. 



In a pecuniary point of view, the planting of evergreens 

 around dwellings is advisable, as they protect them from 

 the violence of the storms, which trees with deciduous 

 leaves, are unable to do during the winter months. This 

 important view of the case has been very ably argued by 

 Dr. Warder in his work on "Hedges and Evergreens," 

 and certainly ought to be carried out in practise by our 

 farmers generally. 



The above mentioned author, after showing conclusively 

 the great saving that will thus accrue in the matter of fuel 

 alone, recommends farmers to plant belts of evergreens 

 around their barns and farm-houses, for the better preserva- 

 tion of their stock from the inclemencies of the winter, 

 and, particularly, for those living in the far West, on the 

 vast prairies, these belts will, undoubtedly, prove highly 

 economical and useful. 



In many instances, throughout England especially, Pine- 

 turns have been .formed, composed entirely of all the spe- 

 cies and marked varieties of this order. Where such is 

 the case, we often find many half-hardy plants succeeding, 

 that under ordinary cultivation obstinately refuse to be- 

 come acclimated. 



This is entirely owing to the shelter which the larger 



growing and hardier kinds afford these natives of a milder 



climate. Some of the large English Pinetums contain 



specimens of all the rarer species, at the present time, of 



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