CHAPTER I 



ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS ON 

 THE SEA-COAST, AND IN DISTRICTS NEAR TO 

 THE SEA. 



IT is not the intention in the present work to 

 take into consideration the afforestation of any 

 part of the country for the purposes of affording 

 supplies of fine timber ; there are already several 

 useful works in circulation treating in the most 

 comprehensive manner with this part of the 

 subject. The main object is to deal with plant- 

 ing on the immediate seaboard and in the most 

 exposed positions near by. 



Trees in such situations cannot be expected to 

 grow into fine timber, but the shelter which they 

 afford when judiciously arranged exerts a bene- 

 ficial influence upon others growing farther inland, 

 as well as upon farm and garden crops. 



In the economy of man and of Nature, the 

 advantages gained in planting in such bleak 

 situations are of a more indirect character, and 



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