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trees, which when planted, were three feet high, indicate an 

 earlier introduction. We give no credit, however, to the 

 tradition, that the old Cedar at Enfield, or that at Hendon, 

 which was blown down in 1779, were planted by Queen 

 Elizabeth ; indeed it is evident, from the silence of Turner, 

 and other writers of that period, in regard to the Cedar, 

 that it was not introduced till after her reign. Loudon 

 thinks it very probable that Evelyn was its first intro- 

 ducer, and that the Enfield Cedar was given by him 

 to Dr. Uvedale, who resided there between 1655 and 

 1670; for in his " Sylva," written in 1664, after praising 

 the Cedar as a " beautiful and stately tree, clad in per- 

 petual verdure," he adds, that " it grows even where the 

 snow lies, as I am told, almost half the year, for so it does 

 on the mountains of Libanus, from whence I have received 

 cones and seeds of these few remaining trees. Why then 

 should it not grow in old England \ I know not, save for 

 want of industry and trial.' 1 



It seems, therefore, very likely that the Enfield tree was 

 raised from the very seed or cones he mentions ; for if sown 

 about 1654 or 5, the young trees would be in a fit state 

 to transplant between that period and 1670, that is, during 

 the time Dr. Uvedale resided at Enfield. Its introduc- 

 tion has also been assigned to Sir Stephen Fox, the ances- 

 tor of the Holland family ; for, in a communication to Mr. 

 Loudon, from the late Lord Holland, in 1836, that no- 

 bleman mentions a Cedar that grew at Farley, near Salis- 

 bury, the native village and burial-place of Sir Stephen 

 Fox, " the very first, I believe, ever planted in England. 

 It was standing, in 1812, near the vault of Sir Stephen 

 Fox, who had imported it from the Levant, and who 

 planted other Cedars in the gardens at Chelsea." 1 This 

 venerable specimen, it appears, was grubbed up in 1813, 



