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rising ground for the purposes of affording shelter, 

 the most extreme points of exposure should be 

 well noted, as it is important that the force of the 

 winds should be well broken up in the first line 

 of exposure. In the flat open country the first 

 line of exposure would in all cases be as near to 

 the sea as the trees could be planted. 



PLANS AND ARRANGEMENTS OF TREES 



Plans and arrangements for planting trees and 

 shrubs must depend to a considerable degree 

 upon circumstances. For instance, a prospective 

 villa resident, or a landlord of a similar holding, 

 would possibly have very little choice, as his 

 boundary fences and hedges would in most cases 

 necessarily be formed in straight lines, and the 

 arrangement of trees and shrubs in the enclosure 

 would be governed by these. When it is purposed 

 to plant a long stretch of land immediately abutting 

 the sea, where the coast-line is rugged and curved, 

 the conditions are different ; the boundary line 

 of fence might possibly follow that of the Ijne of 

 coast. It is impossible to arrange plans to meet 

 every case, but the diagram (No. 6) may serve as 

 an illustration, showing the advantages to be 

 gained in arranging for curved lines of boundary 

 fences on ~ the outer and most exposed sides, as 



