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eter of a little over two feet. Another fine specimen was on 
the grounds of the old Prince Nursery at Flushing, N. Y., which 
in 1889 was about sixty-five feet high. 
This would seem to indicate that this tree is hardy from the lati- 
tude of New York City south. Perhaps it is the favorable loca- 
tion of the trees at Throgg’s Neck and Flushing near the waters 
of Long Island Sound which may account for their vigorous 
growth and long life, but an effort to cultivate it in this vicinity 
would certainly be worth while. Its aes proven o as 
shown in the illustration, would make it 1 in 
any par 
The specific name Libani refers to Mt. Lebanon, with which 
this tree is associated in biblical history. For centuries it was 
believed to be confined to the Kedisha valley at an elevation 
of about 6,000 feet. This ae is about fifteen miles from 
the Syrian port of Beirut. any travellers from western 
Europe had visited this valley in the few hundred years past, 
the reports brought back by them indicating a gradual diminish- 
ing of the number of trees. A scientific investigation of the 
conditions at Mt. Lebanon was finally undertaken in 1860 by 
ir Hooker. He found that there were about four hundred 
trees in the valley, covering an area some twelve hundred 
feet in diameter, with one or two outstanding trees not far from 
the rest. They formed nine groups located on as many hum- 
mocks of the moraine on which they occur. They varied in size 
from six inches to thirteen feet in diameter. The smallest trees 
he was able to find were of the small diameter mentioned above, 
indicating that favorable conditions for the germination of the 
seed must occur at great intervals. 
Since that time many other localities have been discovered, 
and it is now known to occur commonly on Mt. Lebanon, ee 
on the western slopes, in detached groves, in some cases com- 
prising several thousands of trees. Vast forests of it are one 
known on the higher slopes of Mts. Taurus and Anti-Taurus in 
Cilicia. Here it grows between 3,000 and 6,000 feet altitude, 
occurring at the lower elevations with Abies cilicica. In 189 
Walter Siehe, in a report upon the conifers of the Cicilian Taurus, 
