PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



The following list includes such trees and shrubs as have, 

 from long experience, been found well suited for planting on 

 cold and wind-swept shores, and the trees are arranged 

 according to their value for so doing : 



Hardwood*, 



The Sycamore (Acer Pseudo-platanus) is, without doubt, 

 the most valuable tree of timber size that I have come across 

 for planting in exposed seaside situations. It succeeds well, 

 even at high water mark, the stout, twiggy branches being 

 thrown out into the very face of the blast. Even during 

 winter, and in a leafless state, the amount of shelter afforded 

 by this tree is quite surprising. Taking everything into 

 consideration its great hardihood, and suitability to various 

 soils and situations, I consider the sycamore the most valu- 

 able of any tree that I have yet tried for seaside planting. 



The Elder (Sambucus nigra) is, amongst small-growing 

 trees, the best for planting in exposed seaside districts. Its 

 powers of endurance are even greater than those of the syca- 

 more, although the amount of shelter it affords is by no 

 means so great. Where its branches are constantly exposed 

 to the saline-laden breeze, and, its roots amongst almost 

 pure sand, it grows and thrives in a manner that is quite 

 surprising. With the greatest advantages have I used the 

 elder as a wind-break on some of the most exposed and 

 desolate coasts of the British Isles. Even where grown as a 

 single specimen, it seems to disregard the angry blast and 

 saline particles with which it is almost constantly pelteda 

 fact that may be verified, in not one, but several stations 

 along the coast . Then, what tree is of readier culture than 

 the elder, succeds better in poor, sandy soils, or spreads 

 about to an equal extent ? 



The Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) stands the first 

 brunt of the sea-breeze in a most commendable way indeed, 

 it may be recommended as one of the most hardy and valu- 

 able trees for the purpose under consideration that could be 

 named. On the western coast of England, and in a very 

 exposed and wind-swept district, I have used it with the 

 greatest success in the formation of plantations, it growing 



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