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Che coldefl: Parts of: Mount Li&anus, 

 where the Snow continues mofl: 

 Part of the Year. And trom the 

 Obfervations I have made oFthefe 

 now growing in England, I find 

 they thrive bcft on the poorcft Soil : 

 For fuch of them as have been 

 planted in a ftrong, rich, loamy- 

 Earth, have made but a poor Pro- 

 grefs, in Comparifon to fuch as 

 have grown upon a flony, meagre 

 Soil. And that thefe Trees are of 

 quick Growth, is evident from tour 

 of them now growing in the Thy- 

 fick-Garden at Chelfea, which (as I 

 Jiave been credibly inform 'd) were 

 planted there in the Year 1683, 

 and at that time were not above 

 three Feet high; two of which 

 Trees are at this time (viz. 1729) 

 upwards of nine Feet in Girt at 

 two Feet above Ground j and their 

 Branches do extend more thin 

 twenty Feet on every Side their 

 Trunks; which Branches (though 

 produc'd eight or ten Feet above 

 the Surface) do at their Termina- 

 tion hang very near the Ground, 

 and thereby aflford a goodly Shade 

 in the hotteft Seafon of the Year. 



The Soil in which thcie Trees 

 are planted, is a lean hungry Sand, 

 mix'd with Gravel, the Surface of 

 which is fcarcely two Feet deep 

 before a hard rocky Gravel appears. 

 Thefe Trees ft and at four Corners 

 of a Pond, which is brick'd up 

 within two Feet of their Trunks, 

 fb that their Roots have no Room 

 to fpread on one Side, and fo 

 confcqucntly are crampt in their 

 Growth: But whether their ftand- 

 ing fo near the Water may not 

 have promoted their Growth, I 

 can't fay ; but fure I am, if their 

 Roots had hud full Scope in the 

 Ground, tJicy would have made a 

 greater Progrefs. I have alfo ob- 

 ikrv'd, that Lopping or Gutting of 



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thefe Trees is very injurious to 

 them, (more, perhaps, than to any- 

 other of the Refmous Trees) in 

 retarding their Growth i for two 

 of the four Trees above-mcntion'd, 

 being unadvifedly planted near a 

 Green- houfe, when they began to 

 grow large, had their Branches 

 lopp'd, to let the Rays of the Sun 

 into the Houfe, whereby they have 

 been fo much check'd, as at pre- 

 fcnt they are little more than half 

 the Size of the other two. 



Thefe Trees have all of th-^m 

 produc'd, for fome Years, large 

 Quantities ot^Katkins (or Male Flow- 

 ers) ,• tho' there is but on.- of them 

 which hath as yet produc'd Cones; 

 nor is it above four or five Years 

 that this hath ripen'd the Cones, 

 fo as to perfecl: the Seed : But Imcc 

 we find that they are fo far natu- 

 ral] z'd to our Country, as to pro- 

 duce ripe Seeds, we need not fear 

 of being foon fupply'd with Seeds 

 enough, without depending on thoie 

 Cones which are brought from the 

 Levant ; fince there are many Trees 

 of this Kind in England, which in 

 a few Years muff certainly bear : 

 But I find they are more fubje(3: 

 to produce and ripen their Cones 

 in hard Winters, than in mild ones; 

 v/hich is a plain Indication that 

 they will fucceed, even in the 

 coldefl Parts of Scotland, where, 

 'as well as in England, they migh: 

 be propagated to great Advan- 

 tage. 



What we find mention'd in Scrip- 

 ture of the lofty Cedars, can be no 

 ways applicable to the Stature of 

 this Tree ; lince, from the Expe- 

 rience we have of thofe now grow« 

 ing in England, as alio from the 

 Teftimony of feveral Travellers 

 Vv^ho have vifited tho.!' few re- 

 maining Trees on Mount Lib anus, 

 they are not inclin'd to grow very 



lofty, 



