42 SEASIDE TREES AND SHRUBS 



ing extracts taken from one of Mr. Beeforth's 

 letters, dated July 9, 1903, as follows: 



" I have added a few notes to the MS. sent, 

 which I now beg to return. I think you have a 

 fairly good list of what will grow at the seaside. 

 The cutting winds we have here are far worse than 

 the cold. Shelter is wanted from the west and 

 north-east more than from any other quarter. 

 The winds from the west are more harmful than 

 those from the north-east, simply because the 

 west winds last two-fifths of the year, whereas 

 the north-east is very rare ; but when it does 

 come it is the most destructive of any. The 

 south-east is quite as bad, but only visits us 

 a few days in the year. It is bad because it 

 becomes laden with a sandy moisture which is 

 deposited on the leaves of plants, then corroding 

 and shrivelling them up. The direct east wind 

 is generally a steady wind, with no great force, 

 and accompanied with sunlight and clear atmo- 

 sphere, so it need not be dreaded so much as the 

 north-west, north-east, and south-east. 



" I believe, with proper shelter for a while, trees 

 planted thickly on large belts or clumps will grow 

 anywhere on the Yorkshire coast. Manuring 

 trees (which is rarely done) must add materially 

 to their vigour, but I have never been able to get 

 a gardener to do it systematically : he looks upon 

 it as a 'fad of his master.' You will do a great 



