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the stems with the utmost ease. The seeds, which are soft before 
they attain maturity, are almost as hard then as those of the 
silver fir, and they have begun to germinate. Thus on opening 
them the embryo is found nearly changed into a plantlet, and if 
it is put immediately into the ground it will spring up very 
quickly. This must be done, for after the process of germination 
has commenced, it would be impossible to preserve them till the 
following year. There springs up around the cedars at Vrigny 
many self-sown plants which perish, choked in the oak forest 
which surrounds the cedars, trampled under foot, cr destroyed by 
other causes; nevertheless, after two or three years some are 
found big enough to be put into the nursery. 
On August 12, 1844, I visited the Cedars of Lebanon in the 
beautiful garden of M. Guy, at St Germain-en-Laye (Seine and 
Oise), and I saw a great number of male flowers upon several of 
the cedars which stand isolated; these flowers, which wanted 
some weeks of attaining maturity, were upon the lowest branches, 
They were hard, conical, of a pale green, and the longest were 
about an inch in length. M. Guy told me that they would 
give off the pollen in the course of October, that it was very 
abundant, and of the colour of sulphur. I did not see the female 
flowers, which are much less numerous, and are usually produced 
on the branches towards the top of the tree, but they reach 
maturity at the same time as the male flowers with the pollen 
of which they are fecundated, and in a short time after they are 
transformed into cones. M. Guy told me that it is necessary to 
gather the cones in the spring of the second year, as the seed was 
then very good, and that the buyers would not have it from cones 
gathered later. If the cones remain upon the tree, the scales and 
seeds fall during the autumn of this year, or about twenty-four 
months from their first appearance. 
The cedars in M. Guy’s garden are twenty-two in number, and 
their age is about seventy years, all situated near the house, some 
in clumps, where they have grown close together, others standing 
alone upon the lawn, the latter producing the greater number of 
flowers and cones. I noticed upon some of the isolated cedars a 
great number of cones of the preceding year, which had attained 
to almost their full size, and which were of a dull white colour, 
Many of these cones were on the top of the principal tiers of 
branches, and so close that they almost touched one another. 
One of the cedars standing alone had been transplanted when 
