. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . the pine and the larch ; but the prin-cipal objection to it has been the supposed greatslown«ifc of its growth, although that does not appearto be very much greater than in the oak. Somecedars, which have been planted in a soil welladapted to them, at Lord Carnarvons, at Highclere,have grown with extraordinary rapidity. Of thecedars planted in the royal garden at Chelsea, in1683, two had, in eighty-three years, acquired acircumference of more than twelve feet, at two tieetfirom the ground, while th
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . the pine and the larch ; but the prin-cipal objection to it has been the supposed greatslown«ifc of its growth, although that does not appearto be very much greater than in the oak. Somecedars, which have been planted in a soil welladapted to them, at Lord Carnarvons, at Highclere,have grown with extraordinary rapidity. Of thecedars planted in the royal garden at Chelsea, in1683, two had, in eighty-three years, acquired acircumference of more than twelve feet, at two tieetfirom the ground, while their branches extended overa circular space forty feet in diameter. Seven-and-twenty years afterwards the trunk of the largest onehad increased more than haliSa foot in circumference;which is probably more than most oaks of a similarage would do during an equal period. The surfacesoil in which the Chelsea cedars throve so well is THE CEDAR OF LEBANON; Gl not by any means rich; but they seem to have beenureatlv nourished from a neighbouring pond, uponthe filling up of which they wasted Cedar of Lebanon, in the Royal Garden at Chelsea. Various specimens of the cedar of Lebanon arementioned as having attained a very great size inEngland. One planted by Dr. Uvedale, in the gar-den of the manor-house at Enfield, about the middleof the seventeenth century, had a girth of fourteenfeet in 1789 ; eight feet of the top of it had beenblown down by the great hurricane in 1703, but stillit was forty feet in height. At Whitton, in Middle-sex, a remarkable cedar was blown down in had attained the height of seventy feet; thebranches covered an area one hundred feet in dia-meter ; the trunk was sixteen feet in circumferenceat seven feet from the ground, and twenty-one feetat the insertion of the great branches twelve feet abovethe surface. There were about ten principal branches a 62 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. or limbs, and their average circumference was twelvefeet. About the age and
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