. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. ese vene-rable trees, measure from 30 to 40 feet incircumference. The finest and most nume-rous Cedars of Lebanon in the world, at thepresent moment, however, are in GreatBritain. A people so fond of park sceneryas the English, could not but be early im-pressed with the magnificence of this orien-tal cedar. It was accordingly introducedinto England as early as 16S3, and the twooldest trees on record there, are said to have been planted by Queen Elizabeth. TheDuke of Richmond of the year 1761, plant-ed 1000 young Cedars of Lebanon ;
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. ese vene-rable trees, measure from 30 to 40 feet incircumference. The finest and most nume-rous Cedars of Lebanon in the world, at thepresent moment, however, are in GreatBritain. A people so fond of park sceneryas the English, could not but be early im-pressed with the magnificence of this orien-tal cedar. It was accordingly introducedinto England as early as 16S3, and the twooldest trees on record there, are said to have been planted by Queen Elizabeth. TheDuke of Richmond of the year 1761, plant-ed 1000 young Cedars of Lebanon ; andnearly all the larger estates in Englandboast their noble specimens of ihis tree atthe present day. The tallest specimen inEngland, is that at StrathfieMsaye, the seatof the Duke of Wellington, which is 108feet high. Woburn Abbey boasts also manysuperb specimens, varying from 60 to 90 feethigh, nine of which measure from 4 to 6 feeteach in the diameter of their trunks. Butthe largest, and, according to Loudon, un-questionably the handsomest cedar in Eng-. Fig. 117. The Syon Cedar. land, is the magnificent specimen at SyonHouse, the seat of the Duke of Northumber-land. This tree is 72 feet high, the diameterof its head 117 feet, and of the trunk 8 give a miniature engraving of this tree(fig. 117,) from the Arboretum Brittanicum,and also of the tree diiFoxley, planted by SirUvedale Price, (see Frontispiece), which is50 feet high, with a trunk measuring 4 feetin diameter. The finest specimen of this evergreen inthe United States, is that upon the groundsof Thomas Ash, Esq., at Throgs Neck,Westchester county, N. Y. We made ahasty sketch of this tree in 1845, of whichthe annexed engraving is a miniature.(Fig. lis.) It is about 50 feet high, andhas, we learn, been planted over 40 years. RARE EVERGREEN TREES. 539 ]t is a striking and beautiful tree, but hasas yet by no means attained the grandeurand dignity which a few more years willgive it. Still it is a very fine tree,
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