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ing our northern position. In no northern country can 

 we see such a variety of exotic vegetation in the free 

 air Himalayan Rhododendron, Palm, Indian Magnolia. 

 It would take a long time to free people's minds of the 

 idea that it is only in the warm and often relaxing 

 southern country that such beautiful results may be got ; 

 but we can see how wrong it is by such instances as 

 those of Mr. Acton on the hills of Wicklow, and also 

 the plantations at Bodorgan on the stormy coast of 

 Anglesey. Given the same shelter and care in northern 

 places beautiful results may also be had. Not only 

 coast gardens may be beautiful, but also plantations of 

 trees of the highest value, as, by working back from the 

 shore, with storm-resisting shrubs and trees, we soon 

 get, even in level and exposed shores, the shelter which 

 gives us a warm, protecting, evergreen wood. Few 

 countries are so rich in sheltering trees as our own, 

 owing to the evergreens that thrive in seashore districts. 

 Shelter may be near, distant for wind-breaks, across 

 the line of prevailing winds, and may be of Yew, Holly, 

 Cedar of Lebanon, native Fir, the Ilex, and Austrian 

 and Corsican Pines. 



By the use near the sea of small-leaved bushes like 

 the Tamarisks, Sea Buckthorn, Baccharis, and small 

 Willows, we very soon get some shelter, and by backing 

 these with close-growing conifers like our Juniper and 

 some of the sea-loving Pines like Pinaster, and the 

 Monterey Cypress and the Monterey Pine, we get 

 shelter for trees, and 100 yards from the shore we may 

 walk in warm woods. Having got our shelter, the 

 growth of the hardy Pines of the northern world seems 

 as easy by the sea as anywhere ; indeed, if there is any 

 one place where the rather tender Pines are grown well 



