68 DISTRIBUTION OF YOUNG TREES. 



If tlie situation to be planted be near the sea, no 

 plant, in the form of a forest tree, will succeed so 

 well, as a nurse for others, as the Pinaster, or 

 cluster pine». Upon situations near the sea-coast, it 

 is often difficult to get trees of any description to 

 succeed to any considerable extent, even so as to 

 make a moderate shelter ; and it is in such situa- 

 tions that the pinaster is found useful. 



Upon the estate of Dunskey, the seat of Colonel 

 Hunter Blair, in Wigtonshire, it was found im- 

 possible to grow almost any thing like trees, until 

 the pinaster was planted upon the heights along the 

 sea-shore; and now, since those have risen up, — 

 and they grow very rapidly, — the different sorts of 

 common hard-wood trees are thriving well behind 

 them. In such a situation, they do not, of course, 

 rise up so as to make valuable timber themselves, 

 yet, as they grow very bushy, they form an excel- 

 lent shelter for trees inland, and by the shelter 

 attained from them, the more valuable trees behind 

 succeed, which is the end in view in planting them. 



SECTION III. DIFFERENT METHODS OF PLANTING 



YOUNG TREES, AS GENERALLY PRACTISED BY 

 FORESTERS. 



In the planting of forest trees, two different 

 methods are in practice among foresters : the first 

 is the method of planting mpits; and the second. 



