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&nd their ^ranches extend more than 

 twenty Feet on every Side their 

 Trunks ; which Branches (tho* pro- 

 duced twelve or fourteen Feet above 

 the Surface) do at their Termination 

 hang very near the Ground, and 

 thereby afford a goodly Shade in 

 the hotteft Seafon of the Year. 



The Soil in which thefe Trees 

 are planted, is a lean hungry Sand, 

 mix'd with Gravel, the Surface of 

 which is fcarcely two Feet deep be- 

 fore an hard rocky Gravel appears . 

 Thefe Trees ftand at four Corners 

 of a Pond, which is brick'd up with- 

 in two Feet of their Trunks, fo that 

 their Roots have no room to fpread 

 on one Side, and confequently are 

 crampM in their Growth : but 

 whether their Handing fo near the 

 Water may not have promoted their 

 Growth, I can't fay ; but fure lam, 

 if their Roots had had full Scope in 

 the Ground, they would have made 

 a greater Progrefs. I have alfo ob- 

 ferv'd, that lopping or cutting of 

 thefe Trees is very injurious to them 

 (more, perhaps, than to any other 

 of the refinous Trees) in retarding 

 their Growth ; for two of the four 

 Trees above-mention'd, being unad- 

 vifedly planted near a Green houfe, 

 when they began to grow large, 

 had their Branches lopp'd, to let the 

 Rays of the Sun into the Houfe, 

 whereby they have been fo much 

 check'd, that at prefent they are little 

 more than half the Size of the other 

 two. 



Thefe Trees have all of them pro- 

 duced, for fome Years, large Quan- 

 tities of Katkins (or Male Flowers) j 

 tho' there are but two of them 

 which have as yet produe'd Cones ; 

 nor is it above fixteen or eighteen 

 Years, that thefe have ripen'd their 

 Cones, fo as to perfect the Seed : 

 but fince we find, that they are fo 

 far naturaliz'd to our Country, as to 



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produce ripe Seeds, we need not 

 fear being foon fupply'dwith enough, 

 without depending on thofe Cones 

 which are brought from the Levant ; 

 fince there are many Trees of this 

 Kind in England, which in a few 

 Years mull certainly bear : but I 

 find they are more fubject to pro- 

 duce and ripen their Cones in hard 

 Winters, than in mild ones; which 

 is a plain Indication, that they will 

 fucceed, even in the coldeft Parts of 

 Scotland, where, as well as in Eng- 

 land, they might be propagated to 

 great Advantage. 



What we find mention'd in Scrip- 

 ture of the lofty Cedars, can be no- 

 ways applicable to the Stature of 

 this Tree ; fince, from the Experi- 

 ence we have of thofe now growing 

 in England y as alfo from the Testi- 

 mony of feveral Travellers, who 

 have vifited thofe few remaining 

 Trees on Mount Lib anus, they are 

 not inclm'd to grow very lofty ; but, 

 on the contrary, extendtheir Bran- 

 ches very far: to which the AUufion 

 made by the Pfalmijl agrees very 

 well, when he is defcribing theflou- 

 rifhing State of a People, and fays, 

 They /ball fpread their Branches likt 

 the Cedar-tree. 



Rau-wolf, in his Travels, faysj 

 there were not at that time ( /. e, 

 Anno 1574.) upon Mount Libanus 

 more than 26 Trees remaining, 2^. 

 of which flood in a Circle ; and the 

 other two, which Mood at a {'mall 

 D : rlance, had their Branches almofi 

 confum'd with Age : nor could he 

 find any younger Trees coming up 

 to fucceed them, tho' he look'd 

 about diligently for fome : thefe 

 Trees (he fays) were growing at the 

 Foot of a fmall Hill, on the Top of 

 the Mountains, and amongft the 

 Snow. Thefe, having very large 

 Branches, do commonly bend the 

 Tree to one Side ; but are extended 



