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accuracy of the result, but the bag obtained in 1922 and 1923 

 leads us to hope that the plan will prove successful. 



Appendix III. — On the Ced.ars of Lebanon at 

 Goodwood Park, Sussex. 



John Grigor, in his work referred to, Arboriculture, when 

 writing on the " Rise and Progress of British Plantations," states 

 (page 21) ** that large plantations were formed at Croome, Syon, 

 Claremont, and at Goodwood." At the last-mentioned place the 

 Duke of Richmond planted 1000 Cedars of Lebanon, five years 

 old, in 176 1, which formed part of the second generation of the 

 tree grown in England, having been produced from one of the 

 first trees known in the country. 



By the kindness of the Earl of March I am able to give an 

 account of the measurements of these cedars from the time 

 they were planted to the present day, written for me by 

 Mr F. Brock, head gardener to the Duke of Richmond and 

 Gordon at Goodwood Park, dated 30th January 1924. 



"The oldest cedars at Goodwood were planted by the 

 third Duke of Richmond in 1761. Peter CoUinson, a Quaker 

 and a landscape gardener of that day, did a great deal of 

 planting of trees for the third Duke. (He had also been a 

 friend of the second Duke.) 



"Loudon, on page 2414 of his great work on Trees, quotes a 

 MS. memorandum of CoUinson's as follows : — * I paid John 

 Clarke, a butcher of Barnes, who was very successful in raising 

 cedars, for 1000 plants of Cedars of Lebanon, 8th June 1761, 

 ;£"79, 6s., on behalf of the Duke of Richmond. These 1000 

 cedars were planted, at five years old, in my sixty-seventh year 

 of age, in March and April 1761. In September I was again at 

 Goodwood and saw these cedars in a thriving state.' 



"(The original receipt for the plants is preserved at Good- 

 wood, as well as several of CoUinson's notes as to where 

 different groups of the cedars were planted.) 



" Of the cedars which Collinson planted Loudon goes on to 

 say that there was only 139 left in 1837. 



" During a violent gale on Ash Wednesday, 3rd March 1897, 

 eleven large cedars were uprooted, and many others were dis- 

 figured through loss of large branches. It is interesting to know 

 that the mutilated ends show no sign of decay. 



