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nade : the trees were large, perluips fifteen or twenty 3'ears old. 

 On each side the esplanade, at the head or top of the park, lie 

 raised two mounts, and planted all with evergreens in April 

 and May 1740. In the centre of each mount was a large cedar 

 of Lebanon of twenty years growth, supported by four larches 

 of eleven years growth. On the same area on the mount Mere 

 planted four smaller cedars of Lebanon aged twenty years each, 

 supported by four larches aged six years; on the sides Virginian 

 red cedars of three years growth, mixed with other evergreens, 

 which now (anno I76O) make an amazingly fine appearance. 



]n the years 1741 and 1742, from this very nursery he planted 

 out forty thousand ttees of all kinds, to embellish the woods at 

 the head of the park on each side of the avenue to the lodge, and 

 round the esplanade. It would occupy a large work to give a 

 particular account of his building and planting. His stoves ex- 

 ceed in dimensions all others in Europe. He dying, his vast 

 collection of rare exotic plants and his extensive nursery were 

 .soon dispersed. 



I paid to John Clarke for a thousand cedars of Lebanon, June 

 the 8th, 1761, seventy-nine pounds six shillings, in behalf of 

 the Duke of Richmond. These thousand cedars were planted 

 at five years old, in my sixty-seventh year, in March and April, 

 anno \'iij\. 



In September I76I I was at Goodwood, and saw these cedars 

 in a thriving state. 



This day, October 20th, 1762, I paid Mr. Clarke for another 

 large parcel of cedars for the Duke of Richmond. It is very re- 

 markable that Mr. Clarke, a butcher at Barnes, conceived an 

 opinion that he could raise cedars of Lebanon from cones from 

 the great tree at Hendon-Placc. He succeeded perfectly, and 



annually 



