4 TREE-PLANTING. 



exceedingly, there are comparatively few which treat 

 upon the planting and management of trees separately, 

 in a popular or " handy " form. 



There are many very excellent works upon trees, 

 from the time of Evelyn downwards, but they are 

 mostly very expensive, and out of the reach of the 

 "million;" and the subject does not appear to have 

 received the amount of attention, at the hands of 

 writers who are well fitted to deal with it, which its 

 great importance deserves. 



Of late years, too, arboriculture has struck out for 

 itself distinct paths, amongst the most remarkable of 

 which, perhaps, is sea-side planting, which, fifty years 

 or so ago, was looked upon as an eccentric fancy, not 

 likely to become of any practical value to those who 

 attempted it. But since the formation of the Earl of 

 Leicester's woods, and those of Sir Thomas Fowell 

 Buxton, on the northern extremity of the county of 

 Norfolk, on the cliffs near that part known as the 

 Yarmouth Roads, the method has become an estab- 

 lished fact, which speaks for itself ; and upon the spot 

 where the proprietor was once told by a successful 

 planter, "that he might as well plant his walking- 

 stick upon it, as anything else," plantations now 

 boldly approach the sides of the German Ocean ; and 

 the coastguard men of the district have their look-out 

 from the midst of a sylvan bower, which before was 

 bleak and desolate in the extreme. 



I shall treat again upon this subject as I proceed, 

 but I wish to point out in the first place, the 

 necessity of a correct appropriation of the various 

 kinds or description of trees to suit certain soils, and 

 situations. 



