180 FOREST PLANTING. 



After the place to be worked has been protected in 

 the manner heretofore described, by front, back and 

 side fences and uneven spots, if there be any, leveled, 

 the entire surface is covered with brushwood or small 

 evergreen boughs, about four feet in length ; and the 

 seeds of pines, birches, bushes and grasses are sown 

 upon them broadcast. Thereupon the laborers take 

 sand from the adjoining unworked part of the place, 

 and throw at every two feet a shovelful over the brush- 

 wood, thus covering not only the seeds, which will, in 

 the meantime, have mostly fallen through the bushes 

 to the ground, but also fastening the loose brushwood 

 to the soil. 



This work is done in sections of about three hun- 

 dred feet long, and of twelve to fourteen feet wide. 

 Generally it is commenced about three yards distant 

 from the back fence by children that, while going 

 backward with the face directed to the back fence, 

 unloosen piles of brushwood, placed in proper distances 

 all over the place, and distribute them over their dis- 

 trict, when the seedsman comes to release them. He is 

 then followed by the workingmen, who cover the place 

 with sand. 



In the diagram on the opposite page, the formation 

 of an artificial dune is shown by Fig. 1. It begins at 

 the high-water mark of the sea, and gradually rises 

 when the wind is blowing landward, till it has reached 

 the highest pitch at the top of the dunes. If it is de- 

 sired to hasten this formation, bundles of straw or 

 brushwood, so-called fagots, are stuck into the beach- 

 ground, less in number and height at the start on the 

 shore, and more numerous and taller near the end of 

 the artificial dune. 



Fig. 3 shows a fenced-in working place, divided up in 

 three sections. One-half of the first section is finished 



