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Tree Planting and Tree Felling 



nothing will grow but the pine. The oak does best on 

 a clay soil, and the beech on chalk. We will suppose 

 that your land consists of good fertile loam (that is 

 a mixture like most garden soil), and that it stands 

 rather high, so that it is exposed to the wind, but that 

 the rain drains away nicely. Your best plan will be to 

 first plant some hardy kind of tree that does not mind 

 the wind. When these have grown big enough to afford 

 some shelter you can grow some less hardy tree that 



Fig. 26. Planting a young Pine. (The rich mould from the surface is 

 placed on one side of the pit and the lower soil on the other.) 



would otherwise be unable to stand the exposed position. 

 The sheltering trees are called nurses and for them you 

 cannot do better than choose Scotch pines. They are 

 quick growers and will not mind the wind. 



If you want to be very economical you may try 

 to rear these from seed ; but you will not want a 

 great many of them and time is important, so we will 

 buy young plants at the nurseryman's. Trees about 

 one foot high will do nicely and will only cost a few 



