Cedrela 435 



cuttings ; and it appears to be perfectly hardy in the north of France, having 

 sustained without injury the severe winter of 1879- 1880. Its large fragrant 

 foliage renders it perhaps more suitable than the Ailanthus for planting in towns. 

 It is said by Nicholson to be now largely used in Holland for that purpose. 



The tree is rather rare in England, and we have seen no specimens remarkable 

 for size. There is a tree in Kew Gardens which measured in November 1905 

 33 feet by 2 feet 4 inches. This is probably of the same age as an Ailanthus of 

 equal height growing beside it. A tree much about the same size is growing and 

 thriving in Messrs. Veitch's Nursery at Coombe Wood. Mr. Cassels informs me 

 that young trees of Cedrela are planted in some of the London County Council 

 parks, as Meath Gardens and Bethnal Green. 



Cedrela sinensis is also cultivated in the United States,^ where a tree flowered 

 at Meehan's nurseries, Germanstown, in 1895. Another only eight years old had 

 attained in the same year 20 feet in height in western Virginia. Professor Sargent 

 thinks it might be used as a street tree in New England, though introduced plants 

 have proved rather tender in that climate. It has frequently flowered in France, but 

 has never produced fruit there. There is no record of its having flowered as yet 

 in England. 



Mouillefert ^ speaks of this tree as one which, in his opinion, has a great future in 

 Europe on account of the high quality of its wood, which he compares to that of 

 mahogany and that of the so-called cedar of the West Indies (^Cedrela odoratd). He 

 says that the tree grows fast from seed, attaining 5 feet in the third year, and adds 

 that on calcareous soil of middling quality at Grignon a tree about twenty- five 

 years old measured 10 metres high. (A. H.) 



1 Garden and Forest, 1896, pp. 260, 279. ^ Principahs Essences Forestiires, 471, 472 (1903). 



