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method for this purpofc I could devife, but never could procure 

 nor ever faw a healthful fliapely plant of them fo raifed : I can 

 make them live, but in plants as well as animals fomething 

 more than bare exiilence is fiirely wanted. 



There are various other forts of Cedars, but the rules here 

 laid down for the culture of thofe mentioned are fufficient, to lead 

 to the whole, by only obferving, that fuch feeds or plants as are 

 brought from warm and temperate regions, require more aid 

 and protedlion for fome time, than others from more inhofpitable 

 climes. 



In the culture of all the Cedars, as well as that of Libanus, let it 

 be an invariable rule, to prune and reduce them to their proper form 

 when the branches are young, from whence their wounds will 

 immediately heal ; but which if neglefted till old and woody, 

 fo great an efFulion of fap will flow from them in hot weather, 

 as to render the trees weak and unhealthy, if it does not dellroy 

 them. 



There is perhaps no fpecies of trees fucceeds in a greater va- 

 riety of foils, or in more oppofite climates, than the Cedars do : 

 They grow in all extremes, in the moift Barbadoes, the hot Ber- 

 mudas, and the cold New-England ; they thrive in the bogs of 

 America, and the mountains of Afia. We have now many good- 

 ly thriving trees of them in Britain, and, from the almoft in- 

 credible value of the wood, joined to the extraordinary beauty of 

 the plants, we have every encouragement to make more extenfive 

 and general plantations of them. 



