420 CEDEUS LIBANI. 



than the exception cease to ascend and the tree then becomes flat or 

 rounded at the top. 



Many are the renowned Cedars in Great Britain placed on record 

 in works on Arboriculture and in the horticultural press, and many 

 are the incidents in relation to their history that have been noted.* 

 So interesting a record is, without doubt, worthy of reproduction, 

 but even the briefest recapitulation would occupy more space than 

 can be well spared ; special notice in this place must therefore be 

 restricted to two trees which stand forth prominently among the 

 existing noble specimens of the Cedar of Lebanon ; viz., the Enfield 

 Cedar and the subject of the illustration. 



The Enfield Cedar is one of the oldest, if not the oldest in England; 

 it was planted by Dr. Uvedale, Master of the Enfield Grammar School, 

 some time between 1662 and 1670. This venerable tree stands on 

 the south side of the old Elizabethan palace, and is somewhat over 

 50 feet high ; the trunk is undivided, 24 feet in girth near the base, 

 and free of branches to about fifteen feet of the height ; the 

 principal branches are most developed on the south side, and have a 

 spread of 30 to 35 feet ; on the opposite side the tree has suffered 

 breakage from north-east winds and snow. The yearly increasing volume 

 of smoke consequent on the rapid spread of London northwards, and 

 which is so deleterious to coniferous trees, is doing its work slowly 

 but surely, so that the fate of this old Cedar will not remain long 

 in suspense.! It is the parent of the fine Cedars at Bayfordbury > 

 near Hertford. 



The Great Cedar at Goodwood is one of a large number dispersed 

 through the park and grounds that were planted for the Duke of 

 Richmond under the direction of Peter Collinson ; } it stands in a 

 level glade of the park on the south-east side of the mansion. As 

 seen from a distance the outline presented by the tree is more than 

 usually regular for a Cedar of Lebanon, but its immense size is not 

 fully apparent till the tree is closely approached, when it is seen that 

 the massive bole, which is over 25 feet in girth, is entire only to 

 about six feet from the ground, when it divides into ten stems which 

 have grown straight upwards to a height of nearly 90 feet, and 

 from which have sprung the horizontal branches that gradually diminish 

 in length from below upwards; the twelve lowermost of these have 

 originated from their base at the top of the undivided trunk, the 

 three largest spread in different directions at an angle of about 120 

 between each two, and measure respectively 69, 66 and 62 feet 

 in length; the diameter of umbrage is therefore over 130 feet. 

 The date of the introduction of the Cedar of Lebanon into Great 

 Britain cannot be fixed with certainty ; it is not mentioned in 

 Evelyn's " Silva," published in 1664, but there is evidence to show 



* Loudon, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britamiicum, Vol. IV.; Lawson's Pinetum Britannicum, 

 Vol. III. ; Hunter's Woods, Forests and Estates of Perthshire ; The Transactions of the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricnltural Society ; The Gardeners' Chronicle passim, etc. etc. 



t And such, we fear, must be said of the tine old Cedars in the Royal Gardens at Kew, at Syon 

 House, Chiswick, Gunnersbury Park and other places in the vicinity of the metropolis. 



J Loudon, Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, IV. 2414. 



Communicated by Mr. R. Parker, Gardener to the Duke of Richmond. 





