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CEDRUS LIBANI 
variety, Cedrus Libani fiendula, and so on. In regard to the latter variety, Mr. Latimer Clark ( Garden , 
June 28, 1879) says:— 
“ For the past twenty years I have admired an exquisite specimen of the True Weeping Cedar of Lebanon, which stands in the grounds of 
the house called ‘ Menival,’ the second house on entering the village of Dulwich from the London end. The tree is quite visible from the road, 
and its gracefully pendent branches flow over one another, and roll out in waves upon the grass in a manner that reminds one of the Falls of 
Niagara; and leads one to think, while looking at it, that it is the most beautiful of all Conifers. The tree looks about 30 feet high, and is pro¬ 
bably eighty years old, and bears cones freely. The only other specimen I have seen is visible over a wall by the river’s side in the village of 
Sunbury, and appears of a similar age. I have for years sought for this Weeping Cedar in vain in the nurserymen’s catalogues, and presume it 
must be out of cultivation.” 
These horticultural varieties are not propagated so much by cuttings and grafts, although this is done 
in some of them, as by pricking out from the beds of seedlings the individuals which give promise of 
possessing each peculiar character. A considerable proportion of every sowing possesses marks of such 
individuality. 
Commercial Statistics .—Sir John Cullum, who has already been quoted, in speaking of the large 
Cedar which had fallen at Hendon Place, incidentally mentions (Feb. 1779) that “the gardener made ^50 
of the cones the year before last, but last year only ^12.” From a memorandum left by Mr. Collinson, in 
his copy of Miller’s “ Dictionary of Gardening,” it appears that, in 1761, he paid John Clarke, a butcher at 
Barnes, who was famous for raising Cedars from the seed of the Hendon tree, ^79, 6s. for 1000 Cedars 
five years old, for the Duke of Richmond, which were all, as well as another large portion subsequently 
obtained, planted at Goodwood. In 1835, 139 of these still remained there. The Mr. Collinson here 
mentioned was a London tradesman (a linen-draper) and Quaker, well known to horticulturists, having been 
one of the chief encouragers of gardening about the middle of the eighteenth century, and was in intimate 
relations with most of the men of science of his time. He had a country house, first at Peckham, and 
afterwards at Hendon, about eight miles from London. He was born in 1693, and died in 1768. The 
same horticulturist has preserved us the means of knowing the price of young Cedars in his day. The 
following notice in the Gentleman s Magazine shews that in 1768 it was half a guinea each : “ There is a 
Cedar tree at Mr. Osgood Hanbury’s, near Coggeshall, in Essex, which is of interest, as it was planted by 
Mr. Collinson’s own hand [query, direction] sixty-seven years since, in 1768. We transcribe the memorandum 
on the subject, very kindly sent us by Mr. H anbury : ‘In token of the love and perpetual friendship which 
has for so many years subsisted between myself and my dear friend John Hanbury and his family, and as a 
lasting memorial of that friendship, I desire that one guinea may be given to my sincere friend Osgood 
Hanbury to purchase of Gordon two Cedars of Lebanon, to be planted in two places of the new part of the 
park last taken in. Let the occasion of the said Cedars and of their ages be registered in the great Bible 
at Coggeshall, that succeeding generations may know our friendship and the antiquity of the trees. To 
my worthy friend Osgood Hanbury and his son I recommend their care and protection.—P. Collinson’” 
{Gentlemans Mag., 1835. New ser., vol. iv. p. 579.) 
Price of cones in 1838, 6d. each selected, or 10s. per 100; plants in pots, 1 ft. high, 2s. 6d. ; 
2 ft, 3s. 6d.; 5 ft., 5s.; 10 ft., 20s. each. In 1851 the prices are quoted generally in the nurserymen’s 
catalogues as follows: one-year seedling, 3s., and two-years 5s. per doz.; plants 4 to 6 inches high, 9s., and 
9 to 12 inches, 12s. per dozen ; 15 to 18 inches, 2s. 6d. ; 2 ft., 3s. 6d. ; and 3 to 4 ft, 5s. each. Seed, 10s. 
per lb. These prices have varied very little from 1851 to the present date (1883), and may therefore be 
quoted as the current market value. 
