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PLANTING OF WASTE LAND. 



injuries of the weather any plants less than them- 

 selves that may be introduced among them. 



It may seem that, by adopting this plan, several 

 years' growth of the deciduous trees will be lost, but 

 it is not so in reality, A great advantage to be de- 

 rived from proceeding in this manner is, that the 

 deciduous trees are preserved from the danger of be- 

 coming hide-bound, which they are very apt ta do 

 on being removed from the nursery into exposed and 

 cold situations. When this disease attacks trees, 

 they are long before they recover the shock, and 

 often die entirely, so that every practicable method 

 of preventing it should be sedulously employed. 

 But for a fuller account of the utility of sheltering 

 trees from the time they are planted, the reader is 

 referred to the part of the work which treats of the 

 cultivation of oak. All the remarks on the subject 

 there offered, are applicable to the elm, beech, and 

 all the more valuable varieties of the deciduous kind, 

 as well as to the oak itself 



Broom and furze of a considerable height afford 

 ready shelter for deciduous trees. In planting them, 

 however, in such situations, the following rules must 

 be observed : — Firsts The pits should be made at 

 least three times as large as in open ground, that 

 the roots of the furze or broom may be kept at a 



