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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
In fine country residences abroad, is is becoming custom- 
ary to select some extensive and suitable locality, where all 
the species of Pines and Firs are collected together, and al- 
lowed to develop themselves in their full beauty of propor- 
tion. Such a spot is called a Pinetum ; and the effect of 
all the different species growing in the same assemblage, and 
contrasting their various forms, heights, and peculiarities, 
cannot but be strikingly elegant. One of the largest and 
oldest collections of this kind is the Pinetum of Lord Gren- 
ville, at Dropmore, near Windsor, England. This contains 
nearly 100 kinds, comprising all the sorts known to English 
botanists, that will endure the open air of their mild climate. 
The great advantage of these Pinetums is, that many of the 
more delicate species, which if exposed singly would perish, 
thrive well, and become quite naturalized under the shelter 
of the more hardy and vigorous sorts. 
The Cedar of Lebanon Tree. Cedrus. 
Nat. Ord. Coniferse. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Monadelphia. 
The Cedar of Lebanon is universally admitted by Euro- 
pean authors to be the noblest evergreen tree of the old 
world. Its native sites are the elevated valleys and ridges 
of Mount Lebanon and the neighbouring heights of the lofty 
groups of Asia Minor. There it once covered immense for- 
ests, but it is supposed these have never recovered from the 
inroads made upon them by the forty score thousand hewers 
employed by Solomon to procure the timber for the erection 
of the Temple. Modern travellers speak of them as greatly 
