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JOURNAL OF HOETIOULTURK AND COTTAGE GAKDENER, 



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envelope the young growth. Neglect of this recults in the 

 decay of the shoot, thus not only depriving the possessor of 

 the beauty of its blooms, but, by destroying the leading growth, 

 permanently injuring the plant. — Experto Ckede. 



THE CEDAE OF LEBANON. 

 It was some time during the latter part of the reign of 

 Charles II. that the Cedar of Lebanon was introduced to this 

 country. Many of the early-planted specimens still exist, but 

 many also have disappeared within a few years. It was evi- 

 dently a great favourite at the time of its introduction, and 

 was much planted in the villa gardens round London, where, 

 in the neighbourhoods of Hammersmith, Chiswick, Sion, 

 Twickenham, Whitton, Eichmond, Walthamstow, and similar 

 localities, original specimens are still to be found ; but the 



encroaching builder has no compunction in removing what- 

 ever stands in his way, and many of the finest trees of Cedar 

 of Lebanon which were frequent in the neighbourhood of the 

 metropolis, have in these latter days disappeared. Some there 

 are that still remain. At Chiswick House, for instance, there 

 is still an avenue of these trees, which is, perhaps, un- 

 surpassed anywhere else by the beauty of their forms, feathered 

 as they are to the ground, and sweeping the turf to immense 

 distances. At Stratfieldsayo, where a grove of them had been 

 planted at an early period, the trunks rise sheer-up like 

 columns 80 or 90 feet high, the spreading branches meeting 

 overhead and forming as it were a temple of vegetation.^ [See 

 vol. xxiv., page 245.] 



" There is," says Piguier, " no nobler object than the Cedar. 

 ' The Lebanon,' say the Arabian poets, ' bears winter on his 

 head, spring on his shoulders, and autumn in his bosom, 



Fig. 3. — Large cedar at normanton park. 



whOe summer sleeps at] his feet;' and in confirmation of the 

 truth of the sentiment a few venerable Cedars still remain ; 

 they form a beautiful grove on the line of route from Baalbec 

 to the coast. They are large and massy, rearing their heads 

 to an enormous height, and spreading their branches afar ; 

 but they have a strangely wild aspect, travellers say, as if 

 wrestling with some invisible person bent on their destruction 

 while life is still strong in them ; but they are gradually dis- 

 appearing. In 1575 there were found twenty-four standing in 

 a circle ; in 16.30 Fermanil counted twenty-two ; there are now 

 seven standing near each other, and a few more almost in a 

 line with them." 



The subject of our illustration is a fine specimen of Cedar 

 of Lebanon at Normanton Park, Rutlandshire, growing in the 

 pleasure grounds near to the kitchen garden. About 3 feet 

 from the grotind it branches off into a great number of Umbs, 

 every one of which would form an ordinary-sized tree. At 

 this height from the ground it is 28 feet in circumference ; 

 the spread of branches is about 00 feet in diameter, and the 

 height from 90 to 100 feet. It is supposed to be two hundred 

 years old. 



Candle Plant. — Caoalia artieulata is still in cultivation, a 

 small plant having been kindly sent to me by Mr. Maule, of 

 the Nurseries, Bristol, Could you tell me where Paohyphy- 



tum roseum is from, and when introduced : 



Sheffield. 



-John Grummitt, 



Mr. James Flint, a weU-known collector in this district, has 

 a specimen of Cacalia artieulata — Candle Plant, and I have no 

 doubt if Mr. Grummitt were to make application a cutting 

 woild be forwarded to him. Mr. Flint, who is a most enthusi- 

 astic amateur, is always glad to encourage the cultivation of 

 specialities. — W. P., Airdrie, N.B. 



NOTES ON VILLA and SUBURBAN GARDENING. 



Flower Shows. — When the cultivator of flowers has been 

 successful in raising his favourites, and his parterres begin to 

 develope their beauties, he is conscious of a very natural desire 

 to show his productions to others. The wisli that our friends 

 should admire the same objects as we do is an inseparable 

 accompaniment to the amateur gardener, and has sometimes 

 made him a mark for the merriment or ridicule of those who 

 are destitute of his tastes. Often have I seen an inhabitant of 

 the suburbs of London, who is happy in the possession of about 

 two poles of ground at the back of his dwelling, drag an un- 

 willing visitor round and round his flower beds, and din his ears 

 with the praises of his Cauliflowers or his Sweet Williams. In 

 such cases the grower has links of fancy and of feeling which 

 bind him to those products of his laboiu- and skill of which the 

 speotatoi is unconscious, and the tuwiUiiig manner in which the 



