ON THE CEDAR OF LEBANON, ETC. 203 
about three feet in girth, from a grove which was being thinned. 
The transplanting did not appear to have hurt it, for it was as 
fine as those in its neighbourhood. M. Guy’s cedars produce an 
abundant crop of self-sown seedlings on the walks, lawns, and 
borders, but they all seem to perish, crushed by feet, cut down by 
the scythe, or otherwise destroyed, so that none are found two 
years of age. I observed in the borders some seedlings that had 
sprung up some months before, and which were as fine as plants 
T had obtained from seed of the same year from the cones on the 
cedar in the Jardin des Plantes. 
M. Pessin, head of the botanical school in the Jardin des 
Plantes at Paris, having observed in 1844 the dissemination of 
the seed of the Cedar of Lebanon in that garden, made a com- 
munication on the subject to the ‘Societé Royale et Centrale 
d’ Agriculture.” It appeared in the Bulletin des Seances of that 
Society, 20th March 1844, as follows :—“M. Pessin, correspond- 
ing member for the department of the Seine, sends some seeds 
of the Cedar of Lebanon gathered from the tree planted in 
1735 in the Jardin de Roi by Bernard de Jussieu, which have 
germinated in the cones still adhering to the tree during this 
winter, and fell to the ground during the latter part of January. 
This germination, which is doubtless due to the mild and damp 
temperature of the winter, has been observed for the first time 
this year. Among the seeds already developed there are some 
whose stemlets are not less than half an inch in length. Several 
hundreds gathered in this state from the ground, and sown in 
February, have succeeded perfectly well.” The natural seed-bed 
resulting from this dissemination of seed had given birth to a 
great number of plants, which I visited on the 29th of April 
1844, They were growing under the shadow of the mother-tree, 
or quite near it, where the raking and the trampling of the work- 
people had probably killed them, for I could find none on the 
25th of June in the same year. I have never observed nor 
heard of any other resinous tree producing a similar germination. 
M. Renou, inspector of the Algerian forests, has published a 
““ Notice sur les forets de Cedres de Algerie” in the Annales 
Jorestieres for the year 1844, page 1, from which I quote the 
following observations upon the flowers and cones of the two 
kinds of cedars noticed by him :—‘ The flowers of the two sexes 
appeared in September and October; in the following June the 
female ovaries presented already the appearance of a greenish 
