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from the Holly to the Cedar, and so get a certain amount 

 of warmth as well as shelter. Sometimes physical 

 obstacles help in shore planting, as dunes and low hills, 

 in the shelter of which we make a beginning. Of this 

 there is an instructive example at Holkham in the long 

 Pine wood flanking that cold and often angry shore. 

 And if we succeed in planting a beautiful evergreen 

 wood within a few yards of the sea we can then work 

 back landwards as far as we care to go. In starting, 

 however, near the shore it is best to use the Corsican, 

 Austrian, and Monterey Pines, and the Holly Oak, leav- 

 ing the broad-leaved trees until we get full protection. 



There is nowhere a more wind-beaten shore than that 

 of Anglesea, judging by the appearance of the few 

 stunted native trees in the open land, but planting of an 

 effective kind has been done almost on the seashore. 

 At the water's edge is the Sea Buckthorn, Furze, and 

 Barberry, which first bar the south-western gales and 

 winds ; a few paces within these, Pines and Ever- 

 green Oaks appear, and soon, with the aid of these 

 excellent shore trees, almost any kind of evergreen 

 planting may be carried out. The contrast between the 

 wind-swept surface of the island and the noble avenue 

 of evergreen trees leading to the house is very striking. 

 Such planting, however, can be carried out best where 

 we plant a wood and not a mere belt. 



On the vast Danish heaths and dunes of Jutland, 

 which are constantly swept by the gales from the North 

 Sea, the White Spruce (Picea alba) has for a long time 

 been extensively planted and used as the main element 

 of shelter round numerous large and small plantations. 

 It answers these purposes so well, that no other known 

 species would be able to replace it in Danish planting. 



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