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in height. There are now about 146 of these fine 

 cedars left, many of them having succumbed to the 

 winter storms during the last thirty years. Many 

 of the larger limbs, although exceeding eleven feet 

 in circumference, were unable to support the vast 

 accumulation of snow, accompanied by high winds, 

 and were broken off, greatly to the regret of the 

 present Duke. 



Having directed attention to the fine specimens of 

 cedar, I must not omit the three cork trees, a species 

 that is by no means common in England. These 

 trees grow in front of the house. They attracted the 

 attention of some foreigners who had been one day 

 to look over the racing stud. Among these was a 

 Spanish gentleman, who remarked that he had seldom 

 seen finer specimens in Spain. 



They are still very fine trees, but like the cedars 

 and the biographer, they feel the efi'ects of age. 

 Age, by the way, has destroyed some rare specimens 

 of magnolia planted on the 2nd of October, 1759, 

 which had attained, in my early days, to the (in 

 England) almost unequalled height of 22 feet, with 

 a girth of 18 inches. These fine plants gradually 

 succumbed after a life of about a hundred years. 



Having written more fully about the various choice 

 trees which flourish upon the Goodwood estate than 

 I first intended, I must not omit to mention the 

 splendid specimens of the Pillirea, a kind of evergreen 



