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SYLVAN SKETCHES. 



" Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the 

 field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became 

 long, because of the multitude of the waters when he shot forth." 



All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and 

 under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their 

 young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. 



" Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches, 

 for his root was by great waters. 



" The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him ; the fir 

 trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like 

 his branches ; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him 

 in his beauty. 



" I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches, so that 

 all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied him*." 



Neither Turner, Parkinson, nor Gerarde, speak of 

 the Cedar as growing here. Mr. Evelyn says, it was 

 not cultivated here in 1664 ; he expresses himself warmly 

 on the subject, and probably may have assisted in turning 

 the planter's attention to it. He says he received cones 

 and seeds of the few remaining trees on Lebanon ; " and 

 why they should not thrive in Old England, continues 

 he, " I know- not, save for want of industry and trial.'' 



In the gardens of the old manor-house at Enfield in 

 1670, when it was occupied by Robert Uvedale, LL.D. 

 who kept a flourishing school there, among other curious 

 trees he planted a Cedar. In the year 1788, an account 

 of this tree was published in the Gentleman's Magazine ; 

 where it is described as being forty-five feet nine inches 

 in height, eight feet having been broken from the top by 

 the hurricane in 170S ; and at the largest part, it mea- 

 sured fourteen feet six inches in circumference. 



Many other Cedars of considerable size have been 

 scattered about in different parts of the kingdom. Some 

 of the finest were planted by Archibald Duke of Argyle ; 

 * Ezekiel, chap. xxxi. verses 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 



