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The grandaughter of Dr. Richardson is 
still living, and from her we have been 
favoured with the following particulars, 
which she has often heardfrom her uncle, 
who succeeded his father inthe possession 
of the estate. When cedars were first 
brought into England, the largest one, 
then a very small shrub, was sent by Sir 
Hans Sloane as a present to Dr. Ri- 
chardson, who, concluding that it would 
not bear an English winter, put it into 
a garden pot, and for some years placed 
it in his green house with the other exo- 
tics ; but finding that whatever it gain- 
ed in summer by being in the open air, 
it lost in winter, he grew tired of nur- 
sing, and ordered his gardener to dig a 
large hole in the corner of his flower 
arden, and fill it with good earth: 
fers he planted it, and here it grew to a 
noble tree, but suffered considerably 
about 30 years ago by a high wind which 
happened when its boughs were heavily 
laden with snow, and tore off large arms 
to the amount of two cart Joads of 
timber. Its present girt, at about one 
foot above the ground, is twelve feet 
three inches ; at eight feet three inches 
from the ground, just below its division 
into two principal branches, fourteen 
feet; the extent of its longest branch 
from the perpendicular of the trunk, 
thirty-seven feet : one of the principal 
branche$ soon divides into three, the 
other into two. This free must have 
been sent to Dr. Richardson before the 
year 1685, when Sir Hans Sloane, in’ a 
jetter to Mr. Ray, expressed his surprise 
that a cedar in the garden of Mr. Watts 
should thrive so well as, without pot or 
greenhouse, to be able to propagate it- 
self by layers that spring: but it ‘could 
not be much before, for Dr. Richardson 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
was not then quite 23 years old, The other 
two were planted some years after, and 
were part of a cedar hedge which was 
clipt for some time, but rising too high, 
the remainder of the trees were taken 
away, and only these two ‘suffered to 
grow.  Bierley Hall is situated in a 
strong clay soil, and the neighbouring 
country abounds in coal and ironstone. 
Dr. Richardson corresponded with most 
of the principal botanists in Europe, maa 
ny of whose létters are still in possession 
of the family ; those of Sir Hans Sloane 
in particular are numerous, but none in 
which the cedar is mentioned happen to 
have been preserved. 
$2. Pinus dammara ; Amboina pitch 
pine. 
Foliis oppositis » eliptico-lanceolatis, 
striatis. 
This curious species of pinus was first 
described by Rumphius, in his Herba- 
rium Amboinense. A specimen of the 
leaves is preserved in the Herbarium of, 
Sir Joseph Banks, who has lately re- 
ceived fragments of the cone also from 
Amboina. Dr. Smith has also discover 
ed a specimen of the leaves in the She- 
rardian Herbarium at Oxford, among 
the plants collected by Dampier. It 
produces a resinous substance, described 
at large by Rumphius, and well known 
in India under the name of dammar- 
puti or white dammar. 
» Mr.'"Lambert informs us that he in- 
tends to follow up the present work with 
the illustrations of the remaining genera 
in the natural order of Conifere ; and 
that several drawings of the species of 
Dacrydium, and the Dombeya of La- 
marck are already finished, and will be 
given to the public as soon as poss 
sible. 
