Abies 
cedrus 
148 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFER. 
well ; its trunk is now (September, 1860) only six 
feet round at a height of: three feet. (773i 
numerous Cedars planted here by my father since 
1823, show many variations in form and mode of 
growth, and in height relatively to age ; confirming 
what Loudon says of the variability of the tree. 
The finest is one in the pleasure ground, between 
the house and “‘ Lizard Lake’”’ ;* this was planted 
in 1832; it is one of the most characteristic, 
massy, flat roofed form of the Lebanon Cedar ; 
with a thick trunk, large and numerous horizontal 
branches, spreading widely and lying densely one 
over another, forming ‘dark green layers of 
shade”’ as Tennyson says. This tree agai 
the last two or three years produced a considerable 
quantity of male catkins, but as yet no cones. 
Another opposite the north-east front of the house 
planted about the same timeyt is of quite 
different habit ;—tall, slender, and spiry, with 
more of the general form-of a Larch, “exeemp 
that the branches are more horizontal. In some 

the branches droop at the ends, though not so 
remarkably as in the Deodar. At Cavenham 
there is a fine large old Cedar, close by the 
hall, with foliage strikingly glaucous. This may 
possibly belong to the variety Adlantica, the 
Cedar of the Atlas mountains. 
(1869). The finest of the young Cedars here,— 
* Planted by Sir Henry and Lady Bunbury + By Mrs. Somerville, 
