THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



to the shelter ! How anxiously will they 

 court the shade ! 



No doubt, from smothering tip small fields, 

 already comfortably situated in point of cli- 

 mate and shelter, with close plantations, 

 there can few advantages proceed, especially 

 while the fields are under corn crops. But, 

 what relation has this to reducing widely 

 extended, bleak tracts, into commodious 

 compartments, whether of corn or pasture 

 lands ? It may be argued, that even the 

 desirable or salutary effects of shelter may 

 be produced, by simply planting single rows 

 of trees around the inclosures. Granted, in 

 many cases. But, in bleak, unsheltered 

 situations, single rows are reared with much 

 uncertainty of success. 



But, by planting a stripe of moderate 

 breadth, even on good land, is there an inch 

 of ground wasted ? What crop would ul- 

 timately pay better? Moreover, might not 

 the margin of the field be as much shad- 

 ed by the tops, or impoverished by the 

 roots of a single row, as by a stripe of 

 any given breadth ? Might not the trees r in 

 a single row, become as tall as those in a 



