. Rural essays . Fio. 1. The Syon Cedar. gi-een in the United States, is that upon the grounds of ThomasAsh, Esq., at Throgs Reck, Westchester county, N. Y. We madea hasty sketch of this tree in 1845, of which the annexed engravingis a miniature. (Fig. 2.) It is about 50 feet high, and has, welearn, been planted over 40 years. It is a striking and beautifultree, but has as yet by no means attained the grandeur and dignitywhich a few more years will give it. Still, it is a very fine tree, and21 322 no one can look upon it without being inspired ■with a desire to plant Cedars of Lebanon.
. Rural essays . Fio. 1. The Syon Cedar. gi-een in the United States, is that upon the grounds of ThomasAsh, Esq., at Throgs Reck, Westchester county, N. Y. We madea hasty sketch of this tree in 1845, of which the annexed engravingis a miniature. (Fig. 2.) It is about 50 feet high, and has, welearn, been planted over 40 years. It is a striking and beautifultree, but has as yet by no means attained the grandeur and dignitywhich a few more years will give it. Still, it is a very fine tree, and21 322 no one can look upon it without being inspired ■with a desire to plant Cedars of Lebanon. The most remarkable peculiarity in the Cedar of Lebanon is the horizontal disposition of its wide spreading branches. This is not apparent in very young trees, bu<soon becomes so as they begin to de-velope large heads. Though in alti-tude this tree is exceeded by some ofthe pines lately discovered in Oregon,which reach truly gigantic heights,yet in breadth and massiveness it farexceeds all other evergreen trees, andwhen old and finely developed onevery side, is not equalled in an or-namental point of view, by any syl-van tree of temperate regions. Its character being essentiallygrand and magnificent, it therefore rig. 2. Cedar of Lebanon, at Mr. Ashs, should only be planted where therenear New-York. • ca • i. r x i i IS suincient room tor its develop-ment on every side. Crowded among other trees, all its finebreadth and massiveness is lost, and it is drawn iip with a narrowhead like any
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