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merchant, is stated to have brought seed from the 

 Levant, between 1680 and 1690, from which sprang 

 the Cedar at Quenby Hall, Leicestershire ; but the 

 trees standing till recently close to the river, in the 

 garden of the Apothecaries' Company at Chelsea, were 

 certainly planted before 1685, under the direction 

 of Sir Hans Sloane, and perhaps of Evelyn. 



Sir Stephen Fox, the ancestor of Lord Holland, 

 is also stated to have imported the Cedar from the 

 Levant to Farley, near Salisbury, and to Chiswick ; 

 and another of the earliest specimens in the country 

 must have been that planted by Samuel Reynardson 

 at the Cedar House, Hillingdon, Middlesex, cut down 

 in 1789, which was over fifty feet high and spread 

 nearly 100 feet in 1779. It is also worthy of note 

 that the finest Cedar in Essex, known locally, like 

 so many others, as the oldest in England, is that 

 at Faulkbourn Hall, which from 1677 to 1679 was the 

 residence of John Ray. This tree is eighty feet high, 

 over twenty feet in girth, and 100 in the spread 

 of its branches. 



From the early part of the eighteenth century the 

 planting of the Cedar as an ornamental tree has been 

 general. The magnificent grove at Whitton Park, 

 Twickenham, was raised from seed in 1722 by Archi- 

 bald Duke of Argyll, who introduced the species into 

 Scotland in 1740. In 1734 Bernard de Jussieu took 

 two plants from England to France in his hat, and 

 in 1761 we find the Duke of Richmond buying a 

 thousand plants of the Cedar for Goodwood Park, 

 for seventy-nine pounds, from John Clarke, a butcher 

 at Barnes, who was very successful in raising seed 



