December, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



415 



The smaller Cedars of Lebanon 



In other parts of Lebanon there are other Cedars, 

 some eleven groves in all, but the trees in these are much 

 smaller than those in the preserve under notice, which is 

 the one visited by tourists and is called Arz er Rub, Cedars 

 of the Lord. Here we have a suggestion of what the 

 Lebanon was, in ancient times, when the now bare peaks 

 and mountain sides must have been covered with these 

 trees. It was here that King Solomon's seventy thousand 



hewers wrought with their thirty-six hundred overseers, 

 besides those supplied by Hiram, King of Tyre, all toiling 

 to prepare the Cedar wood required for the Temple at 

 Jerusalem. These trees were also used in the construc- 



These two specimens of the true Cedar of Lebanon, at Flushing, Long Island, must have been planted there many years ago. Their rarity 

 should make them a mecca for American arboriculturists. They also prove that this species of Cedar will thrive in America 



