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of his four trees having been fo ufed, to admit the rays of the- 

 fun into a green-haufe, whereby they were fo much checked, as, 

 in above forty years growth, to be Httle more than half the lize 

 of the other two : And I myfelf have experienced a circumftance 

 entirely fnnilar ; for, having planted two Cedars about twenty- 

 four years fince, then three feet high, which for lixteen years; 

 grew amazingly faft, and promifed to be noble plants, an igno- 

 rant gardener unadvifedly cut off feveral of their oldefl Under- 

 branches, fmce which they have advanced little or nothing in 

 height, have loft their leading flioots, and become ragged andi 

 bulhy. 



Though thefe trees, when young, require all the culture and' 

 flielter here directed to make them handfome and vigorous, yet, 

 when five or fix years old, no plant will better endure our moft 

 fevere feafons, or grow in more forbidding, poor, and hungry 

 foil, the largeft trees of them now known in the world being 

 in the coldefl and moft expofed places, covered great part of the 

 year with fnow from whence, it cannot be doubted, but that 

 they might become a great ornament, and valuable improvementy 

 ii" generally planted in Great-Britain.. 



Many pages have been wrote by learned men on the virtues 

 of the wood of this tree, as, that it is proof againft all putrefac- 

 tion of animal bodies, — that it yields an oil famous for prefer- 

 ving books and writings,^ — that the great Sefoftris King of Egypt 

 built a veffel of Cedar, two hundred and eighty cubits long, — 

 that in the temple of Apollo Utica, was found frefh timber near 

 two thoufand years old, — and that the ftatue of the Goddefs in the 

 Ephefian temple was of this material, as was moft of the timbeu— 

 work of that glorious ftrudure, <6'C,. 



