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of which I have examples ; it attains a great height in California. 



The flag-staff at Kew, which is 150 feet high, is an A. Douglasii. 



A typical specimen may be seen on 



St. George's Hill, Weybridge. I have no 



tree of Picea pectinata, nor of the Silver 



Fir ; nor of P. nobilis, which is a really 



noble species of pine (fig. 957) ; nor any 



large tree of the common Spruce Fir 



{Abies excelsd), which is adapted for large 



plantations, and of which noble trees fig. 957.— Coms of Picea nobiiis. 



exist at Dunkeld, and also at Monnymusk, in Scotland. 



Pines are mentioned by Herodotus as follows : — Croesus " sent to the 

 Lampracenes requiring them to set " Miltiades " at liberty ; threaten- 

 ing on -their refusal to destroy them like pines. They deliberated among 

 themselves concerning the meaning of this menace from Croesus, which 

 greatly perplexed them ; at length one of their elders explained it, by 

 informing them, that of all the trees the pine was the only one which, 

 onpe being cut down, shot out no more offsets, but totally perished." 



We have three kinds of Cedars, — the Cedrus atlantica, C. Libani, and 

 C. Deodara, but the most eminent botanists consider them as mere 



varieties of the same 



species. The C. Libani 



is a very grand tree when 



it has plenty of room. 



The largest I ever saw 



is at Enfield, supposed to 



have been planted by Dr. 



Uvedale soon after 1660. 



Mr. Walford, however, 



believes it to be still 



older, and inclines to the 



traditionary view that it was planted by Cardinal Wolsey. The Rev. 



A. Bridges has three fine examples of this tree in the grounds attached 



to his house at Beddington (fig. 958). I have figured two {a and c\ 



Fig. 958.— Cedars of Lebanon and Elir 



