PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



formed on the flanks of the Snowdon range of hills, and 

 where the tree looks quite as healthy and happy as at lower 

 elevations in a sheltered park. 



The Larch, be it remembered, is a good tree for planting 

 on exposed ground, for, though it gets twisted about and 

 untidy of appearance, it has a wonderful recuperative 

 nature, and will succeed well even when planted on the 

 margins of exposed woodlands. By taking advantage of 

 natural tree or shrub growth when forming plantations 

 at high altitudes much good may be brought about. 

 A young tree planted to the windward of a clump of 

 gorse, broom, juniper, or birch has a much better 

 chance of succeeding than another planted where it has 

 no shelter from the worst winds of the particular district. 

 These wild clumps of natural shrubs should be encouraged 

 in every way, for they will not only give a great 

 amount of shelter, but help to thicken up the plantations as 

 well. In exposed woodlands it is a good plan to plant up 

 the margins with such hardy wild shrubs as the gorse, 

 broom, Quick, juniper, blackthorn, etc., all of which will 

 afford a great amount of shelter to the young plants when 

 newly inserted, and help them to start away freely. 



The Common Beech is a good all-round tree for planting 

 in exposed sites, but especially where the soil is poor, or, in 

 other words, composed principally of chalk or gravel. Some 

 of the highest grounds in several of the English counties are 

 occupied by thriving beech plantations, they acting as land- 

 marks for many miles around. 



Both the Huntingdon and Cornish Elms are even 

 preferable to the common English species for planting as 

 shelter, they having been tried at high altitudes, and with a 

 fair amount of success. 



The Oak and Ash should both find places in high-lying 

 and exposed woodlands, for, although they cannot be planted 

 successfully along the margins, yet they thrive well where 

 a little shelter is afforded, and where the soil is fairly deep 

 and rich. 



The Birch cannot be passed by in any list of trees for 

 planting in exposed places ; it thrives well at high altitudes, 



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