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polished. It takes about seventeen months to become full 
grown and ripen the seeds. 
The Austrian Pine is one of those that do well on poor soils, 
and takes kindly to chalk. From the density of its foliage, it 
makes a good shade and shelter tree. Its timber, though 
coarse in grain, is very durable, and useful for outside work. 
Cedar of Lebanon {Cedrns Ubani). 
Made familiar, by name at least, from very early times by 
frequent references to it in the books of the Old Testament, it 
is rather strange that so hardy a tree was not one of the 
first of those introduced for ornament into Britain. It is true 
that local legends attaching to some old Cedars in this country 
credit them with having been planted in “ the spacious times of 
great Elizabeth ” — as the great Cedar at Whitton, Middlesex, 
blown down in 1779; but, on the other hand, we have the fact 
that no mention is made of the Cedar by John Evelyn in his 
“ Sylva” (1664L This, it is true, is only negative evidence ; but 
it is strong none the less, for it is not at all likely that so keen 
and pious an arboriculturist would have omitted mention of so 
noteworthy a tree had such been growing here when he wrote. 
There is reason to believe, however, that the still-existing En- 
field Cedar was planted about the date of Evelyn’s publication 
by Dr. Uvedale, master of the Enfield Grammar School. 
The researches of Sir J. D. Hooker, subsequent to his 
memorable expedition to Lebanon and Taurus in i860, estab- 
lished the specific identity of the three Cedars known as the 
Mount Atlas Cedar, the Cedar of Lebanon, and the Deodar. 
Though the arboriculturist still treats them as distinct species, 
they are scientifically regarded as geographical forms of one 
species. For convenience we here adopt the arboriculturist’s 
view. 
