THE CEDAR OF LEBANON. 



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not by any means rich; but they seem to have been 

 greatly nourished from a neighbouring pond, upon 

 the filling up of which they wasted away. 



Cedar of Lebanon, in the Royal Garden at Chelsea. 



Various specimens of the cedar of Lebanon are 

 mentioned as having attained a very great size in 

 England. One planted by Dr. Uvedale, in the gar- 

 den of the manor-house at Enfield, about the middle 

 of the seventeenth century, had a girth of fourteen 

 feet in 1789; eight feet of the top of it had been 

 blown down by the great hurricane in 1703, but still 

 it was forty feet in height. At Whitton, in Middle- 

 sex, a remarkable cedar was blown down in 1779. 

 It had attained the height of seventy feet; the 

 branches covered an area one hundred feet in dia- 

 meter; the trunk was sixteen feet in circumference 

 at seven feet from the ground, and twenty-one feet 

 at the insertion of the great branches twelve feet above 

 the surface. There were about ten principal branches 



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