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the chestnut trees like his branches, nor any tree in the 

 garden of God like unto him in beauty."* 



In England the Cedar of Lebanon appears to have 

 become quite naturaUzed. There it is considered by far 

 the most ornamental of all the Pine tribe, — possessing, 

 when full grown, an air of dignity and grandeur beyond 

 any other tree. To attain the fullest beauty of develop- 

 ment, it should always stand alone, so that its far-spreading 

 horizontal branches can have full room to stretch out and 

 expand themselves on every side. Loudon, in his 

 Arboretum, gives a representation of a superb specimen 

 now growing at Sion House, the seat of the Duke of 

 Northumberland, which is 72 feet high, 24 in circum- 

 ference, and covers an area, with its huge depending 

 branches, of 117 feet. There are many other Cedars in 

 England almost equal to this in grandeur. Sir T. D. 

 Lauder gives an account of one at Whitton, which blew 

 down in 1779 : it then measured 70 feet in height, 16 feet 

 in circumference, and covered an area of 100 feet in 

 diameter. To show the rapidity of the growth of this tree, 

 he quotes three Cedars of Lebanon, which were planted at 

 Hopetoun House, Scotland, in the year 1748. The mea- 

 surement is the circumference of the trunks, and shows 

 the rapid increase after they have attained a large size. 



Increase in 

 32 years. 



A Chestnut measured at the sanae periods, only increased 2 7 



Ezekiel xxxi. 



