38 SITUATIONS FOR 



Thefe confi derations naturally fuggeft the pre 

 priety of planting in the one cafe, on the face o 

 the floping bank, and confiderably within the le 

 vel of the fumniit, in order that the trees may 

 have flicker from the current of wind till they ar- 

 rive at the height of ten or twelve feet, and fo 

 become a fcreen to any fucceeding plantation 

 which may be made higher up. It is only by at- 

 tending to fuch methods that we can expert to 

 urmount fuch natural difficulties. In the cafe of 

 a level more, it is bed to plant in zones ; begin- 

 ning firft at the extremity of the propofed planta- 

 tion or foreft which is to be nearer! to the mar- 

 gin of the fea. For bleak fituations much ex- 

 pofed to the fea breeze, the moft defireable plants 

 for nurfes are the Elder and the Sycamore ; * a 



part 



* The Elder and the Sycamore should be plentifully 

 planted as nurses to masses of Oak, Elm, &c. as they are 

 known to stand the sea air, and bear up against gales of 

 wind better than any others. The Pinaster- also thrives, 

 near the sea on the western coasts of Scotland, and may 

 therefore be tried as a nurse. Scots firs will endure the se- 

 verity of the blast well, and should be intermixed in zones 

 of such nurses as the above ; because they keep on their 

 leaves during winter; and prevent the winter blast from 

 seizing on the tender shoots of the other trees. In situa- 

 tions like the above, Larches will hardly succeed ; they will 

 become much bent by the breeze, snd so may prevent the 

 principal crop of trees from rising ; while the others recom- 



