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place in England, as in 1761 many hundreds were planted by Peter Collinson for 

 the Duke of Richmond. Loudon, on page 2414, quotes a MS. memorandum of 

 Collinson's as follows : " I paid John Clark, a butcher of Barnes, who was very 

 successful in raising cedars, for 1000 plants of Cedar 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, in March and April 1761 ; in September 

 1 76 1 I. was at Goodwood and saw these cedars in a thriving state. This day, 

 20th October 1762, I paid Mr. Clark for another large portion of cedars for the 

 Duke of Richmond. The duke's father was a great planter, but the young duke 

 much exceeds him, for he intends to clothe all the naked hills above him with 

 evergreen woods." Of the cedars at Goodwood, Loudon goes on to say that 139 

 remained in 1837. According to Kent {op. cit. 419, note *), eleven fine cedars were 

 uprooted in Goodwood Park by the fierce gale of 3rd March 1897. 



There are some splendid cedars at Wilton of which Lambert* writes as 

 follows : " I am indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert (author of the cele- 

 brated work on AmaryllidacecB) for the following interesting particulars respecting 

 the cedars at Highclere, the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon: 'The two oldest 

 cedars at Highclere were raised in 1739 from a cone brought from Lebanon by 

 Dr. Pococke ^ in 1 738. They were stunted plants for some time, and removed to 

 their present situation in 1767. The largest of the two measured, in 1829, 

 9 feet in circumference, having grown only an inch in the last two years, the 

 chalk being unfavourable to its growth. The largest cedar at Highclere, though 

 much younger, measured in 1830, at three feet from the ground, 10 feet i inch in 

 circumference ; it was reared from a cone, which came from the Wilton cedars in 

 1772, and was about 48 years old before it bore. It was known to the late Earl of 

 Carnarvon that the cedars at Wilton were kept by his grandmother, the Countess 

 of Pembroke, in pots at her window, till growing too large, they were planted upon 

 the lawn, between the house and the water, a situation very favourable to their 

 growth. Supposing them to have been 48 years old, when the cone was gathered 

 from them in 1772, they must have been raised as early as 1724. It is most probable 

 they were between 17 10 and 1720; for the Countess of Pembroke who cultivated 

 them died before her husband, who married again after her death, and died in 1 733. 

 The oldest cedars at Highclere are, therefore, now (in 1831) 92 years old; those at 

 Wilton at least 106, probably between no and 120. Dr. Pococke found the cir- 

 cumference of the largest cedar with a round or single stem to be 20 feet ; but he 

 does not state how near the ground he measured it.'" I saw these trees in 1903 

 and measured them carefully; the best was then about 108 feet high and 21 in 

 girth, with a spread of 109 feet. This tree has lost a large limb, the hollow caused 

 by which has been carefully filled with cement. 



At Strathfieldsaye there are also some splendid cedars, a group of which on 

 strongish clay soil have the same upright, small-branched character as the Windsor 

 trees. The best of these is no feet high by 11 feet 9 inches in girth, with a clean 



' Genus Pinus, ii. 91 (1832). 



' This is not confirmed by Mr. Challis's statement on p. 459 ; and probably all the Wilton cedars were not of the same 

 age. Dr. Richard Pococke travelled in the East during 1737 to 1742. 



