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Park, in Derbyshire, in 1676 ; but it is worth men¬ 
tion that there is a tradition, but wholly unsup¬ 
ported by any evidence, that the famous cedars ot 
Warwick Castle (see plate), so cruelly destroyed in the 
gale of March 25, 1895, were planted there by the 
Crusaders. How well the words apply !— 
Let the mutinous winds 
Strike the proud cedars ’gainst the fiery sun. 
Coriolanus, V. iii. 59. 
And by the spurs plucked up 
The pine and cedar. 
Tempest, V. i. 47. 
Many of the passages in which the poet names the 
cedar are very grand. Unfortunately, we have not 
here room for all; but they will be found in their 
proper sequence by-and-by. One or two deserve 
special attention : 
But I was born so high, 
Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top, 
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. 
Richard III., I. iii. 265, 
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub’s foot, 
But low shrubs wither at the cedar’s root. 
Lucrece, 664, 
And lastly : 
He shall flourish, 
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches 
To all the plains about him. 
Henry VIII., V. v. 253. 
From our Eastern tree we turn to another garden 
ornament, a stately flower with elegant drooping 
bells of red or gold—the crown imperial, native of 
Persia, Afghanistan, and Cashmere (the Fritillaria 
imperialis, L.). As old Parkinson says, “it deserveth 
the first place in this our garden of delight,” and 
none the less for its pretty legend. 
