56 SEASIDE TREES AND SHRUBS 



nursery grounds and gardens, and as it retains 

 its dead leaves through the winter months, and 

 only loses them in spring as growth begins, it 

 affords good shelter at all seasons of the year. 



Common Hornbeam is also good as a hedge 

 plant, and will succeed in strong soils where 

 beech does not thrive. 



Myrobella makes a stiff, strong hedge, but often 

 goes hollow at the bottom, unless special care is 

 exercised in training the young plants as they 

 grow in height, and encouraging them by cutting 

 hard back each year when young, and until they 

 reach their full height, to form dense bottom 

 growth, and keeping the hedge constantly trimmed 

 afterwards. On strong soils it grows very ram- 

 pant perhaps too much so. On rather poor soils 

 it is weaker and makes better fences. 



Prunus Pissardii. A good hedge of this is to 

 be seen in a villa garden in Thorpe, near Robin 

 Hood's Bay. It makes a very pretty hedge in 

 spring, summer, and autumn, with its dark coloured 

 foliage. It also appears to be fairly hardy in this 

 position. 



Lycium barbarum has already been noted as 

 hardy in exposure by the sea, and is much used 

 as a hedge plant inland (see Chap. V. : Saltburn). 



Evergreen. Oval-leaved Privet makes a thick 

 hedge when kept in good order. It is of rather 

 weakly growth, and is liable to get blown about 



