58 THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH FORESTRY 



ant a part in their way as the larger belts and clumps which 

 occupy several acres of land. As regards area, however, 

 there is no reason to suppose that this need be large, and 

 even 1 per cent, of land devoted to such a purpose 

 should provide all that is necessary, and an owner of one 

 hundred acres of land should have little difificulty in 

 keeping one of them under trees. 



In this work, as in the larger one of economic forestry, 

 the British Isles are far behind other countries in the 

 matter of State assistance and control. Planting for 

 shelter and ornament must be done in a general way 

 by the private individual on his own land, but street and 

 roadside trees could, and possibly would, be maintained 

 by local authorities if assisted by Imperial funds. In 

 such countries as Denmark, Holland, etc., in which this 

 form of planting is especially desirable, State-aided organi- 

 sations are at work with the object of assisting and en- 

 couraging both local bodies and private owners ; and 

 extraordinary progress has been made in what at first 

 looked like a hopeless undertaking. This work will, how- 

 ever, be dealt with in a later chapter. 



