PRACTICAL FOBESTRY. 



odds and difference as must and do exist between the two 

 points at present under consideration. 



Sometimes it is well to trench over a piece of ground on 

 partially-exposed land, and insert therein for a couple of 

 years before the proposed plantation is to be formed, the 

 young trees intended for planting out. This has a 

 wonderful effect in hardening and inuring them to severe 

 cold and a wind-swept situation. By forming a nursery of 

 young trees by the sea-coast, I have known great success 

 attend the formation of woods and plantations in maritime 

 situations, and like results are sure to attend the planting 

 out of trees in any uncongenial and unfavourable situation. 



About the trees to be planted, and that are sufficiently 

 hardy to withstand prolonged storms, we will now say a 

 few words. In the outer line or, rather lines the Scotch, 

 Austrian, and Corsican Pines (Pinus sylvestris, P. austriaca, 

 and P. laricio) are of first value, they being able to stand 

 against the storms of the hillside and produce a great 

 amount of shelter to other less hardy kinds. It is often only 

 necessary to make a wind-barrier, as it were that is, plant 

 well-tried evergreen kinds, from which shelter can be 

 obtained, next the most windy position, then to follow up 

 with other kinds that are second hardy in nature, and so on 

 inwards ; while, in the very centre of the plantation, almost 

 any kind of tree can be used. 



The Austrian Pine has been successfully planted at 

 high altitudes, and in the most exposed situations, and on 

 the Continent it has proved itself of great value for breezy 

 sites and maritime situations. 



The State forests are composed of not a few Austrian 

 Pines, and they are greatly valued for the shelter and 

 warmth they afford to other less hardy kinds of trees. If 

 planted when young the best results are to be obtained, 

 for, when removed of an older age, and the roots large and 

 rampant of growth, it is with great difficulty that they can 

 be got to keep upright. 



The Corsican Pine is equally good with the latter for 

 using where winds are of common occurrence, proving stout 

 and strong, rooting well, and presenting a broad surface of 



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