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wide-spreading head. From that time onwards the cedar 

 of Lebanon has been a favourite with planters of ornamental 

 trees, and there are but few country-seats in England where 

 one or more grand old specimens cannot be seen in the 

 gardens or parks around them. In Goodwood Park, Sussex, 

 there is perhaps the greatest number of fine old cedars in 

 one place in England, and they form an important feature 

 in the grounds at Syon House, Gunnersbury, and Chiswick 

 House, in ]\Iiddlesex ; at Woburn Abbey, in Bedfordshire ; 

 at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire ; at Warwick Castle, and at 

 many other places of more or less renown. 



So far as the history of the cedar in Scotland has been 

 traced, the famed cedar of Lebanon, at Biel, in East 

 Lothian, known as the "Union Cedar," is probably the 

 oldest north of the Tweed. It is on record that it was 

 planted in 1707 by the Lord Belhaven of that day, to 

 commemorate the union of England and Scotland. It is a 

 splendid specimen, with a short stem about 18 feet in girth 

 at the smallest part, and branching at about 4 feet from the 

 ground into a fine healthy umbrageous head. The well- 

 known cedars at Hopetoun, in West Lothian, are stated to 

 have been planted in 1748, and the largest now girths 

 about 23 feet at 5 feet from the ground, with a height of 

 upwards of 80 feet. Good specimens of healthy cedars are 

 met with in the grounds attached to most country-seats, as 

 far north as Koss-shire, when situated on a good soil and at 

 a moderate altitude. A considerable number of young and 

 old cedars are growing in the Park at Dalkeith, The 

 oldest probably grow at Smeaton, in the lower part of the 

 Park, and are mostly short-stemmed trees, with large 

 branching heads. The handsomest trees with the finest 

 stems grow in the grounds at the Conservatory, in a well- 

 sheltered spot near the Soutli Esk Kiver. They have fine 

 clean stems, from 11 to 13 feet in girth at 5 feet up, and 

 15 to 20 feet in length, carrying full-shaped heads, rising 

 t(j a height of about 70 feet. They are about 120 years old, 

 in vigorous health and growing fast, and occasionally bear a 

 few cones, which have not produced fertile seed, so far as 

 it has been tried. Younger cedars of all the varieties — 

 CedruH atlantica, C. Deodara, and C. lihani, — planted about 

 forty years ago, are thriving well, and have attained a height 



