CEDAR TREE. 



1MNHS <KI 



COXffl MONiECIA MONADELPHIA. 



French, cedre; Italian, mlro. 



THIS tree was formerly placed with the larch, with 

 which i( agrees in foliation ; now both are included in the 

 pine genus, with which the Cedar agrees in being an ever- 

 green. 



" That noble tree, the Cedar of Lebanon," savs Martyn, 

 in his edition of Miller, Wk has a general striking character 

 of growth so peculiar to itself, that no other tree can 

 possibly be mistaken for it." 



" Those which seem of the greatest antiquity,"" ob- 

 serves Evelyn, "are indeed majcstical. The sturdy arms 

 grow in time so weighty as often to bend the very stem 

 and main-shaft. The leaves much resemble those of the 

 larch, but are somewhat longer, and closer set, erect, and 

 perpetually green; which those of the larch are not, 

 but hanging down, dropping off, and deserting the tree 

 in winter. The cones are tacked and ranged between 

 the branch-leaves, in such order as nothing appears more 

 curious and artificial, and at a little distance exceedingly 

 beautiful; these cones have the bases rounder, shorter, 

 or rather, thicker, ami with blunter points; the whole 

 circum/oned as it \\ere, with pretty broad thick scales, 

 which adhere together inexact series to the very summit, 

 when- they .uv somewhat ^mailer; hut the entire lori- 



