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Chapter XXVII. 

 The cedar TREE, 



The Species are : 



1. The Cedar of Libanus. 



2. The red Virginian Cedar. 



3. The white-berried Virginian Cedar. 



4. The Cedar of Bermudas. 



5. The Tree, or Swedifh Juniper. 



'TP HE cones of the Cedar of Libanus were formerly brought 

 to Britain from the Levant j but the Englifli trees have 

 fince produced abundance,, and thofe of a better quality than 

 the foreign. The late Mr Philip Miller, (whofe memory I fhall 

 ever revere as my worthy friend, and moft indulgent communi- 

 cative mafter), who, from his naturally acute and ingenious ob- 

 fervations, as well as having four of the fineft plants in 

 England under his diredtion, nov^ growing in the Phyfic-garden 

 of Chelfea, muft have had accefs to know tlie nature of this tree 

 better than moft men, — juftly obferves,- That they are more apt 

 both to produce and ripen their cones in hard than mild winters ; 

 and of the Englifh producing more and better feeds, I have 

 certain demonftration, having, from his bounty, annually re- 

 ceived a prefent of a conliderable quantity of his cones for above 

 twenty years, which never failed, though thofe from abroad, 

 purchafed at a high price, often did. 



These noble and magnificent trees at Chelfea having been for 

 feveral years under my almoft daily view, I could not help con- 



