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In the neighbourhood of Washington it does ex- 

 tremely well and has been used at Arlington where 

 there are several handsome specimens. 



The Red Cedar is a most beautiful tree. Its 

 growth is naturally pyramidal, but when found 

 near the coast it is often twisted into the most 

 fantastic and weird forms. If your place is bare 

 of Cedars it would hardly be worth while to plant 

 them, their development is so exasperatingly slow; 

 but if Nature has thrown any of them in your way 

 be most careful to preserve them as they give much 

 character to the surroundings. They are to be 

 found growing in the most absurd places, where it 

 would be impossible to establish any other form 

 of tree, or even Cedar itself by transplantation, on 

 the tops of rocks with apparently no soil in sight, 

 tentacled around stones like petrified devil-fish, 

 out of the clefts of rocks where birds have dropped 

 the seeds, very often hanging from the face of a 

 cliff or boulder. They are natural formalities of 

 the landscape that can be made the basis of semi- 

 formal plans. Although it is possible to trans- 

 plant these trees when they are found growing 

 freely in loam and not with their roots forced into 



