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the common alder, the mountain ash, and several services; 

 and the Scotch fir, Austrian pine, Pinus laricio, montana, and 

 pinaster, if a little sheltered, will make excellent trees for the 

 seaside. Poplars and willows will be valuable for temporary 

 shelter, as they will grow rapidly and tall, and thus protect 

 the others till they become strong, after which they should 

 by degrees be almost entirely weeded out. 



Among dwarf seaside plants, the dogwoods, the Ribes san- 

 guineum and aureum and grossulariafoliuni, the deciduous 

 viburnums, the symphorias, the elders, the tamarisk, some 

 of the spiraeas, particularly salkifolia, the common fly honey- 

 suckle, and the berberries are particularly hardy for decidu- 

 ous shrubs; while all the hollies are valuable as evergreens, 

 and the common rhododendrons and heaths (when planted 

 young), evergreen berberries, will, with privet, which is 

 almost evergreen, be useful in rendering a seashore garden 

 green and lively during winter. Of these, the tamarisk, the 

 elder, and the common furze will flourish on the very margin 

 of the sea and in the poorest sandbanks. 



For hills that are more inland where there is a scanty soil 

 and great exposure with steep or precipitous faces exhibiting 

 little beyond the bare rock in parts, birches, pines, larches, 

 the common ash, the common oaks, mountain ash and ser- 

 vices, with heaths, rhododendrons if there be a little shade, 

 common hollies, thorns, and clematis for enriching some of 

 the jutting masses of rock, vacciniums, mountain snowberry, 

 savin, etc., will make an excellent clothing of either a dense 

 or a partial kind. Plants should be put in when quite small 

 in such elevated tracts. 



Of plants that will thrive in marshy places or by the sides 

 of water courses, willows and alders will be the most signifi- 

 cant, and the latter are decidedly ornamental. The decidu- 

 ous cypress, in sheltered spots, is quite as suitable, and even 



