. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. [Hortieuliurist, June. 1847.) THE Mt^^m^iu. JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AM) RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. JUNE, 1S47. No. 12. An American may be allowed some honestpride i#- the beauty and profusion of fineforest trees, natives of our western hemi-sphere. North America is the land of oaks,pines, and magnolias, to say nothing of thelesser genera; and the parks and gardensof all Europe, owe their choicest sylvantreasures to our native woods and hills. But there is one tree, almost everywherenaturalized in Europe—an evergreen tree aspre-eminently gra
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. [Hortieuliurist, June. 1847.) THE Mt^^m^iu. JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AM) RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. JUNE, 1S47. No. 12. An American may be allowed some honestpride i#- the beauty and profusion of fineforest trees, natives of our western hemi-sphere. North America is the land of oaks,pines, and magnolias, to say nothing of thelesser genera; and the parks and gardensof all Europe, owe their choicest sylvantreasures to our native woods and hills. But there is one tree, almost everywherenaturalized in Europe—an evergreen tree aspre-eminently grand and beautiful amongevergreens, as a proud shipof the line amonglittle coasting vessels—a historical tree, asrich in sacred and poetic association as MountSinai itself—a hardy tree, from a region ofmountain snows, which bears the winter ofthe middle States; and yet, notwithstand-ing all these unrivalled claims to attention,we believe there are not at this moment adozen good specimens of it, twenty feethigh, in the United States. We mean, of course, that world-renownedtree, the Cedar of Lebanon
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