The =Turkey Oak= (_Quercus Cerris_), with just a small amount of shelter, will be found a most valuable tree for planting within the influence of the sea. It thrives well in very poor soils, and when in full leaf is capable of affording a great amount of shelter. The =Evergreen Oak= (_Q. Ilex_) has proved itself to be peculiarly fitted for planting as shelter in exposed and maritime districts. In the formation of seaside plantations, but particularly where, from the frequency and force of the storms, few trees can succeed, I have planted the evergreen oak with the greatest success. The trees just treated of have no equals, among such as have yet been introduced, for withstanding cold seaside winds, a trial of many other varieties only resulting in proving their unfitness for planting in such situations. Two or three others, such as the =English Oak=, =Hornbeam=, =Beech= and =English Elm=, might be added to the list, but they can only be recommended for planting where at least partial shelter is afforded. CONIFERÆ Foremost amongst these I must, from long personal experience and a fair trial of several kinds under exactly similar conditions in every way, place the =Austrian Pine= (_Pinus austriaca_). It grows with unusual freedom, and affords a greater amount of shelter than any other tree with which I am at present acquainted. That it will succeed equally well with the _P. Pinaster_ when subjected to the sea-breeze, I am now fully convinced, while the amount of shelter it affords, and rapidity of growth, place it far ahead of that species for the purpose we are now considering. It may not succeed so well as the Pinaster when planted in pure sand, on the sea-coast, and this is the only point that can be adduced in favour of the latter species over _P. austriaca_. In forming many large woods along the coast of Northern England I used the Austrian pine in preference to several others, and happily, too, for it has succeeded in a surprising manner, trees of ten years’ growth being fully 13 ft. in height, and nearly as much in diameter of branch spread. With such a screen as that afforded by the hardy Austrian, many half-tender trees can be planted farther inland; and this is the method of procedure that I have found to be most successful in getting up shelter along bare and fully exposed parts of the shores of Western England and Scotland.