226 GROWTH OF CEDAR OF LEBANON. [PART II. 
who had an orthodox horror of “defective drain- 
age,” at once had an opening made in the spot, with 
a view of ascertaining the cause and remedying 
the evil. On this being done however, it was dis- 
covered that the quagmire had been caused sim- 
ply and exclusively by the oozings from a single 
elm-root, a part of which had been cut off in 
consequence of its projecting from the ground, 
and thus interfering with the operations of the 
men engaged in mowing the turf. The colour 
and smell of the sap must, I imagine, be attri- 
butable to its having become decomposed after it 
had left the root. 
On another occasion I saw perfect puddles 
formed by the constant dripping of sap from two 
or three broken twigs of a young and vigorous 
walnut-tree ; and that too in freshly dug mould, 
where the soil was naturally rather dry than other- 
wise. 
The growth of the Cedar of Lebanon, so far 
from being slow as might naturally be expected 
from its general appearance, and the close texture 
of its wood, is in fact much more rapid than 
that of many of our other forest-trees. There is 
one standing in the Isle of Wight, the girth of 
which, at one foot from the ground—the spring. 
