50 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



SECTION II. 



Those Soils adapted to the Evergreen or Resinous 

 ) viz. 



The Cedar of Lebanon, The Common, or Norway 



The Scotch Fir, or Spruce, 



Pine, The American Spruce, and 



The Weymouth Pine, The Silver Fir. 



CEDAR. 



THE soil, in this kingdom, which this ma- 

 jestic tree has been observed most to affect, 

 and that in which (with perhaps one or two 

 exceptions) it is found most to luxuriate, is a 

 gravelly or sandy loam of considerable depth, 

 lying on a free, porous substratum : But it 

 will grow on all soils, and in all situations, 

 excepting those of a very retentive or humid 

 kind. 



This celebrated tree is found in the high- 

 est perfection on the bleakest and most moun- 

 tainous sites of the East; but whether it shall 

 be found so on the mountains of Britain, re- 

 mains to be known. It is much slower in 

 growth, and also less docile than the Larch ; 



