SOME NOTABLE TREES AND SHRUBS 149 
story repeated word for word, so we, children of a larger growth, 
rejoice in the rejuvenescence of a world we have known be- 
fore. 
H. Guthrie-Smith. 
SOME NOTABLE TREES AND SHRUBS. 
■gBBjW iI I ERE are many trees and shrubs cultivated in our land 
WE which, though not indigenous, are well worthy of our 
lISLSBl notice. They come from many and various countries, 
are grown mainly for their beauty, and live, though 
often with some difficulty, through the most trying winters that 
we have to pass through. 
Sometimes they bear their place of origin in the names by 
which they are designated. Such are the Cedars of Lebanon, 
which adorn many a fine park and, by their presence, serve to 
show the vanished site of many a famous house which might 
otherwise never have been detected or even thought of. The 
grounds of Chiswick House, which is, we regret to learn, soon 
to be laid out as a building estate, possesses some of the most 
gigantic cedar trees in England. As this house was a Palladian 
villa built by the famous Earl of Burlington, and as in one of 
the rooms died George Canning, and in another Charles James 
Fox, it is sad to learn that this is to get into the hands of the 
house-builder. But such is the fate of all the famous London 
houses, and the time of Chiswick House has at last come. The 
Cedar of Lebanon is endowed with a beauty and magnificence of 
form which always commands respect, being one of the finest of 
our cone-bearing trees. It was introduced rather more than 
two hundred years ago. Its short-stalked female flowers when 
they have been fructified by the pollen from the stamens, develop 
into erect, large, ovate, and solitary cones that when full-grown 
are almost as hard as a bale of wood, and composed of scales 
pressed close together. 
Often, too, we find a tree whose popular name may prompt 
us to look up its history. Such is that usually known as the 
Acacia, which took its name from a mistaken belief that it was of 
the same species as the Egyptian Acacia, or Locust-tree, which 
it much resembles in the leaf. But, though it has been among 
us for nearly two hundred and fifty years, it comes from quite 
another source. It is said to have been introduced from North 
America in 1601, by Jean Robin, a French botanist, from whom 
it takes the name of Robinia Pseudacacia, or False Acacia. It was 
one of the first trees that we received from America, and it has 
been more extensively propagated than any other, both in France 
and England. In both countries it has been alternately extrava- 
gantly extolled and extravagantly neglected, and though the 
