ON THE CEDAR OF LEBANON, ETC. 209 
increase in bulk of this cedar, calculated by its diameter at 3 feet 
from the ground, has been one-sixth of an inch. Of the four 
cedars planted also at Vrigny by Duhamel-Dumonceau in 1770, 
the largest has a diameter of 3 feet 6 inches at 3 feet from the 
ground, it is 78 feet in height, and its trunk is straight to the 
very top. These trees are growing in a free and nourishing 
sandy soil, mixed with heath-mould. 
There is in the kitchen garden at Vrigny a cedar which was 
raised in 1808 from the seed of the fine cedar just mentioned, 
and was thirty-seven years old in 1844; it had borne for several 
years male catkins, but it had not produced cones; it was 48 feet 
in height, and its diameter was 20 inches, and its annual increase 
till 1844 had been one-eighth of an inch, 
Jaume Saint Hilaire has given, in the Annales de l Agriculture 
Francaise for 1841, p. 204, the girths of a Cedar of Lebanon 
planted in 1743 by Duhamel-Dumonceau on his estate of 
Denainvilliers, near Pithiviers (Loiret). These measurements 
were taken at 1 foot from the ground, at the following dates :—in 
1753 it girthed 0°76 metre; in 1779, 1°86 m.; in 1786, 2:03 m. ; 
in 1799, 2:35 m. ; in 1809, 2°65 m. ; in 1822, 3:14 m.; in 183], 
3°44 m.; in 1835, 3:50 m. It is easy to calculate the annual 
increase of this cedar at these different dates, supposing it was 
six or eight years old when it was planted. 
There is, in the district of Courteilles, in the garden of M. A. 
Richard, a cedar which in 1843 was about fifty-one years old. I 
found its diameter then to be 2 feet 8 inches, and its height 53 
feet ; its trunk was divided at 7 feet 6 inches from the ground 
into five large branches, almost vertical at their junction. The 
annual increase of this tree had been up to 1843 one-seventh of 
an inch. 
Delamarre says, in the second edition of his Zvazté Pratique des 
Pins, that the three largest cedars in France are the cedar in 
the Jardin des Plantes, the cedar at Vrigny, and the cedar at 
Montigny-Laucoup, Provins (Seine and Marne), planted by 
Duhamel in the garden of M. de Trudaine. I have given the 
dimensions of the two first of these trees. Delamarre says that 
the last was then (1827) 13 feet 2 inches in girth at 4 feet 6 inches 
from the ground. M. L.-Deslongchamps speaks of the same tree 
in his Histoire du Cedre du Liban, and says that it required four 
people to clasp it with their arms ; consequently the girth cannot 
be less than 20 feet. This cedar grows in very good soil. 
