THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. 1 13 



perhaps, on account of our connexion with the 

 Continent being in a great meafure cut off. It 

 feems, however, to be a plant of fo delicate a ha- 

 bit, as to prevent our expecting it ever to become 

 fo large or fo valuable a tree with us, efpecially 

 in expofed filiation's. 



CEDAR OF LEBANON. 



(Pinus Cedrus.) 



This has always been efteemed an ornamental 

 tree, and, we believe, has only been planted as 

 fuch in this kingdom. The fined we know of 

 are at Stow, * Pains-hill, and Blenheim. There 

 are none fo large as thefe in Scotland, though fe- 

 veral of a pretty large fize are to be fotirid in that 

 country. 



We needi not attempt the rearing of it merely 

 as a timber tree. Its growth is fo flow with us, 

 that, although its wood, ^hen obtained, is abun- 

 dantly durable, yet, even then, it would feem to 

 be fully equalled by other kinds, which are far 

 more readily and eafily reared, as the Larch. 



H THE 



* The largest Cedar at Stow, in 1810, measured, at 4 

 feet above the surface, 1 2 feet in girth ; the stem 40 feet 

 to the cleft ; and total height, by estimation, 65 feet : it 

 is said to have been planted about 90 year* ago, 



