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180 and 200 feet high ; P. pindrow 150 feet ; P. nordmanniana 1 00 feet ; 

 P. nobilis 260 feet. Piuus lambertiana, growing in pure sand in the 

 northern parts of California, attains an altitude of 200 feet, with a straight 

 stem, 100 feet clear of branches, and of GO feet girth near the ground. 

 The Weymouth pine, the slender-leaved pine, P. tenuifolia, P. bullata, 

 P. carrierei, and P. sabiniana, are others of the family of Piuus, the most 

 noted for their lofty stature and noble proportions. P. cedrus, the 

 Mexican cedar pine, has the nearest resemblance to the cedar of Lebanon, 

 of any of its race, having not the least appearance of a pine when 

 viewed from a distance, the stature being GO feet, with spreading branches 

 from the ground to the summit, forming a regular pyramid from the 

 base, and shading a space of 400 feet in circumference. For additional 

 examples of lofty growth, or particularly fine proportions, we may instance 

 among Cupressus — Benthami, excelsa, Knightiana, Lawsoniana, the hand- 

 somest met with by Mr. Murray, in his explorations of California — 

 Lusitanica, Nutkaensis, and tortulosa. The last named is a remarkable 

 cypress, it grows to a great size ; trees of 1 to 15 feet girth are common 

 in northern India, and Major Madden describes those met with on the 

 mountains of Nynee Tal, at 4,000 to 6,200 feet elevation, as stately 

 trees, 150 feet high, with stems as straight as arrows, and the drooping 

 branches so symmetrically arranged as to make each appear a perfect cone — 

 the largest measured by him was 16| feet in girth, at five feet from the 

 ground. Whitleyana is another fine cypress, which grows to 100 feet in 

 the gardens of Kohaut and Peshawur. Among the Araucarias, we have 

 many unsurpassed for magnificence, while their distinctness of character 

 adds to the interest with which their large growth invests them. The 

 well-known A. imbricata, or monkey puzzle, so much prized in our gar- 

 dens, for its whorled foliation and spiral arrangement of branches, attains 

 a height of 150 feet on the western declivities of the Audes, where it 

 forms vast forests on the verge of the snow line, and is rarely seen at more 

 than 2,000 feet below it. A. excelsa, Bidwilli, Braziliensis, Cooki, and 

 Cunninghamii, are others of the family, noted for their majesty and large 

 stature. The species of cedars are pre-eminently majestic, and may be con- 

 sidered as the noblest of all evergreen trees. The cedar of Lebanon is a 

 frequent subject of comparison and metaphor with the sacred writers, as 

 well as an important tree in the geographical and historical incidents of 

 holy writ. The name, indeed, is derived from the brook Kedron, in 

 Judea, on the banks of which the stately cedar of Lebanon is found in 

 plenty. All the species are mountainous, and all are historically inter- 

 esting. C. Atlantica, the cedar of the Atlas Mountains, has the fine, 

 tabular head, common to the genus, and grows to a height of 100 feet, at 

 700 to 800 feet above the sea, on the Atlas range. The famous Deodora 

 cedar, now to be seen in almost every garden, where it has the grace and 

 delicacy of a weeping willow, and the robustness of an Euglish oak, attains 

 to gigantic proportions on the upper ranges of the Himalaya, where it is 

 found abundantly, at an elevation of from 5,000 to 12,000 feet, aud again 

 in Kaffristan, it forms dense forests, at 10,000 feet above the sea, and forms 

 individual specimens of immense size. In the forests of Lower Kamaoon, 

 they measure 20 to 27 feet in girth, and Major Madden measured one tree, 

 in 1830, which, at 5 feet from the ground, had a girth of 36J feet, and on 

 a subsequent journey, he met with many in the Boorum and Boopiu passes, 



