CEDAR OF LEBANON. 
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The Cedar varies greatly — no tree more so — in height and 
general outline, according to situation and environment, and 
though the stature of well-grown trees in this country may be 
correctly stated as from 50 to 80 feet, we are not without 
examples of 100 and 120 feet where the conditions have been 
specially favourable. There is one of 1 20 feet at Strathfieldsaye, 
and among the numerous fine Cedars at Goodwood there is the 
celebrated Great Cedar, 90 feet high, with a bole 25 feet in 
Cedar of Lebanon. 
circumference, and a broad conical head whose base has a 
diameter of 130 feet. But the Cedar, as usually seen on lawns 
and in parks, has a low. rounded, or flattened top, the great 
spreading arms having grown more rapidly than the trunk. 
Thus grown, the huge bole has seldom any great length, throw- 
ing out these timber branches at from six to ten feet from the 
ground, and immediately afterwards the trunk is divided into 
several stems. From these the main branches take a curving 
