THE CEDAR OF LEBANON 



down and its annual rings, carefully counted, num- 

 bered two hundred and thirty-six. According to this 

 the tree must have been a seedling in 1638, and very 

 probably it is of the same origin as the one at Chil- 

 drey Rectory. Loudon thought the Cedars in the 

 old Physic Garden at Chelsea, planted in 1683, but 

 now dead, and those at Chiswick House, which are 

 still flourishing, were the oldest in England. One at 

 Enfield is known to have been planted by Dr. Robert 

 Uvedale, Master of Enfield Grammar School, be- 

 tween 1662 and 1670, another, also still living, at 

 Bretby Park, Derbyshire, was planted in 1676. 



Among the many noble specimens in England it is 

 difficult to state which is the largest but that at 

 Pain's Hill, near Cobham, figured by Elwes and 

 Henry in their great work " The Trees of Great Brit- 

 ain and Ireland" and by them measured in 1904 and 

 found to be from 1 1 5 feet to 1 20 feet tall and 26 feet 

 5 inches in girth of trunk with a wide-spreading crown 

 and in perfect health] must be counted among them. 

 Another in Goodwood Park, the seat of the Duke of 

 Richmond, was measured in 1906 and found to be 

 about 96 feet tall and 26J feet in girth of trunk. 

 Goodwood is probably more celebrated for its Cedar 

 trees than any other plate in England. There is a 

 record of Peter Collinson in 1761 supervising the 

 planting of a thousand Cedars for the then Duke of 



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