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form some conception of the gi-andeur of tlie 

 Cedar in its own climate, wliere its strength and 

 beauty are united. The best specimen of this 

 tree I ever saw in England was at liillington, near 

 Uxbridge. The perpendicular height of it was 

 fifty three feet, its horizontal expanse ninety six, 

 and its girth fifteen and a half. "When I saw it, 

 in 1776, it was about one hundred and eighteen 

 years of age, and being then completely clump- 

 headed, it was a very noble and picturesque tree. 

 In the high winds about the beginning of the year 

 1790, this noble Cedar was blown down. Its stem, 

 when cut, was five feet in diameter. 



After the Cedar the Stone Pine deserves our 

 notice. It is not indigenous to our soil, but, like 

 the Cedar, it is in some degree naturalized, though 

 in England it is rarely more than a puny, half- 

 formed resemblance of the Italian Pine. The soft 

 clime of Italy alone gives birth to the true pic- 

 turesque Pine.* There it always suggests ideas of 



* Tliis SGGins to bo a disputod point. Millar believes it is 

 not indigenous in Italy ; and indeed 1 never heard any traveller 

 say lie liad mot with it in any of the uncultivated parts of that 

 country. 



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