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provide shelter for crops and for game (pheasants, deer, 

 etc.). Where timber is the chief motive for a plantation 

 the ground should be closely planted with trees that 

 grow tall and straight. 



Apart from their utility for timber and for those 

 health-giving properties of which we shall speak in 

 another chapter, trees are valuable to a country for the 

 beauty they give it. Have you ever noticed, as you 



Fig. 5. Typical Midland scenery. The river Avon at Evesham. 



travelled from one part of England to another, how the 

 differences in the scenery through which you pass are 

 almost entirely due to them ? Suppose you have been 

 staying on the coast of Norfolk and you are going back 

 to your home in Devon. You have been on sandy hills, 

 with here and there clumps of Scotch Pine that, give 

 the country a rather wild and lonely look. As soon as 

 the Fens are reached the land becomes flat, with silvery 

 willows lining the banks of the winding streams. Then, 



