1 1 4 Shore-lands planting 



it is near the sea in places around our coast, where, if 

 the soil is good, one has not to be so careful about the 

 hardiness of trees we select as one has to be in inland 

 places. 



The Evergreen Oak is the most precious of evergreen 

 trees near the sea ; but as it is not very easily trans- 

 planted from nursery-bought plants, it is just as well to 

 raise it at home and plant it young. Seed may be 

 dibbled in where we wish it to grow. This Ever- 

 green Oak withstands gales better than any other tree, 

 and is precious for the south and west and all seashore 

 districts. It suffers from indiscriminate planting with 

 other and sometimes coarser things, and is rarely 

 grouped in an effective way, although at Ham House, 

 Killerton, St. Ann's, Tregothnan, and Holkham, we may 

 see the good effect of grouping it. There are many fine 

 trees of it in coast districts in England and Ireland. 

 Where there is room the tree should be grouped or 

 massed, as, apart from effect, we get the best shelter 

 in that way. At Abbotsbury it is put for an ever- 

 green shelter round every new plantation, even in that 

 sheltered dell by the sea. 



Among the taller Pines for seashore woods the best is 

 the Corsican, and, both from the climate of its island- 

 home on the mountains, and the result of trials in various 

 parts of England and Ireland, we may make up our 

 minds about it. The Pines of the northern Pacific coast, 

 too, are well used to sea influences, and hence we see 

 in our country good results from planting them near the 

 sea, as, for example, Menzies' Spruce at Hunstanton, 

 the Monterey Pine at Bicton, and the Redwood in many 

 places near the sea. One good result of planting in 

 such places is that we may use so many evergreen trees, 



