March 27, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



149 



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Fig. loi. — A Cedar of Mount Lebanon. — See page 147. 



with a trunk girth, one foot above the ground, of seven feet 

 two inches, and a spread of branches of thirty-three feet — cer- 

 tainly not a very remarkable growth in forty-six years. There 

 is a fine Cedar on the grounds of the old Prince Nursery, in 

 Flushing, now some sixty-five feet high, with a trunk which 

 measures, five feet from the ground, eight feet and two and a 



half inches, but the fact that this tree is so rarely seen in the 

 Middle States still needs explanation. 



The best accounts of the Cedar of Lebanon are found in the 

 paper by Sir Joseph Hooker already referred to, and in the his- 

 torical and cultural essay published by Monsieur Loiseleur- 

 Deslongchamps iniSjy, entitled " Histoire du Cedre da Liban." 



