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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
From the above table, it will be seen how congenial even 
the cold climate of Scotland is to the growth of this tree. 
Indeed in its native soils, the tops of the surrounding hills 
are almost perpetually covered with snow, and it is, there- 
fore, one of the very hardiest of the evergreens of the old 
world. There is no reason why it should not succeed 
admirably in many parts of the United States ; and when 
we consider its great size, fine dark green foliage, and wide 
spreading limbs which 
“ Overarching, frame 
Most solemn domes within,” 
Shelley. 
as well as the many interesting associations connected 
with it, we cannot but think it better worth our early 
attention, and extensive introduction, than almost any 
other foreign tree. Evergreens are comparatively difficult 
to import, and as we have made the experiment of 
importing Cedars of Lebanon from the English nurseries 
with but indifferent success, we would advise that persons 
attempting its cultivation should procure the cones 
containing the seeds from England, when they may be 
reared directly in our own soil, which will of course be an 
additional advantage to the future growth of the tree.* 
The situations found to be most favorable to this Cedar, 
in the parks and gardens of Europe, are sandy or gravelly 
soils, either with a moist subsoil underneath, or in the 
neighborhood of springs, or bodies of water. In such places 
it is found to advance with a rapidity equal to the Larch ; 
* The finest Cedar of Lebanon in the Union, is growing in the grounds of 
T. Ash, Esq., of Westchester Co., N. Y., being 50 feet high and of 
corresponding breadth. It stands near a Purple-leaved Beech, equally largo 
and beautiful. 
