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CEDAR TREE. 
pearance, and so well calculated to grow in bleak 
situations, should not have been more generally cul- 
tivated in this country, to adorn our barren moun- 
tains and break the dreariness of the prospect. The 
cedars thrive best in the poorest soil ; and those in 
the physic garden at Chelsea may be quoted as a 
proof that their growth is not so slow as to make 
that a reasonable objection. Mr. Miller observes, 
that these trees were planted there in the year 1683, 
and were not, at that time, above three feet high ; 
in 1774, two of the cedars were upwards of twelve 
feet and a half in girth, at two feet above the ground, 
and their branches extended more than twenty feet 
around their trunks. 
Dr. Hunter, in his edition of Evelyn’s Silva, has 
noticed some of the most remarkable trees of this 
species which have ever been produced in this 
country. “ In the garden of the old palace at En- 
field,” says the doctor, fC stands a cedar of Libanus 
of considerable stature. The body, exclusive of the 
bough, contains about 103 cubical feet. This tree 
was planted by Dr. Uvedale, who kept a flourishing 
boarding-school at the time of the great plague in 
1665. It is in height about fifty-four feet at pre- 
sent *, eight feet having been broken off from its 
top by the high wind in 1703. Several other ce- 
dars of considerable size are scattered about in dif- 
ferent parts of this kingdom. Of these, one of the 
most remarkable was blown down by the hurricane 
* 1786 . 
