CHAPTEE V 



FORMATION OF PLANTATIONS 



WHENEVER possible, the boundary-line should 

 be laid out with a due regard to the shelter 

 afforded to adjoining lands and to the plan- 

 tation itself, and it should also be remembered 

 that along continuous straight lines of trees 

 severe storms will exercise their full destruc- 

 tive force. The form of outline must also be 

 regulated by the prevailing winds of the par- 

 ticular district, and should present a convex 

 side towards it, as it is obvious that on 

 such a surface the storm would expend 

 itself in opposite directions and so lose 

 greatly in destructive force, and particularly 

 is this the case on exposed and high-lying 

 grounds. 



Having obtained, surveyed, and marked out 

 the boundaries, the next preliminaries will be 

 fencing, clearing the ground of rough-growing 



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