ARBORE?UM NOTES. 149 
CONIFER. 
PINUS (ABIES CEDRUS). 
Abies 
the one planted in 1832 produced two well-grown 20° 
: cedrus 
cones in 1867, and has borne cones each year 
since, but as yet only a very few. 
I first observed them in August of that year. 
(1876). Ihe Cedar above-mentioned bears, 
this year, a remarkable abundance of cones, very 
well formed and handsome. It is odd that none 
of our other Cedars have yet borne any, though 
some of them are equally old with this tree. 
(1879). Another of our Cedars has this year 
borne a good many cones. It is the one opposite 
to the north-east front of the house, which I 
noticed as remarkable for its tall, slender, and 
epmy form: From the colour of the cones, I 
suppose they must really be of last year. 
Some of the most beautiful Cedars I know 
are in Mr. Mills’s grounds at Stutton Rectory, on 
fie stour.' The largest of them measured, in 
1851, sixteen feet one inch in circumference, and 
was a magnificent tree, but it has since been sadly 
shattered, mutilated and disfigured by violent 
storms of wind and snow. Two others, which are 
comparatively uninjured, measure, the one fifteen 
feet three inches round, the other, thirteen feet 
three inches. There are many very noble Cedars 
at Embley, Mr. S. Shore Smith’s (formerly Mr. 
Nightingale’s), near Romsey. 
