. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. of which I have examples; it attains a great height in California. The flag-staff at Kew, which is 150 feet high, is an A. Douglasii. A typical specimen may be seen on St. George's Hill, Weybridge. I have no tree of Picea pectinata, nor of the Silver Fir; nor of P. nobilis, which is a really noble species of pine (fig. 957) ; nor any large tree of the common Spruce Fir {Abies excelsd), which is adapted for large plantations, and of which noble trees fig. 957.—Coms of Pi
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. of which I have examples; it attains a great height in California. The flag-staff at Kew, which is 150 feet high, is an A. Douglasii. A typical specimen may be seen on St. George's Hill, Weybridge. I have no tree of Picea pectinata, nor of the Silver Fir; nor of P. nobilis, which is a really noble species of pine (fig. 957) ; nor any large tree of the common Spruce Fir {Abies excelsd), which is adapted for large plantations, and of which noble trees fig. 957.—Coms of Picea nobiiis. exist at Dunkeld, and also at Monnymusk, in Scotland. Pines are mentioned by Herodotus as follows :—Croesus " sent to the Lampracenes requiring them to set" Miltiades " at liberty ; threaten- ing on-their refusal to destroy them like pines. They deliberated among themselves concerning the meaning of this menace from Croesus, which greatly perplexed them ; at length one of their elders explained it, by informing them, that of all the trees the pine was the only one which, onpe being cut down, shot out no more offsets, but totally ; We have three kinds of Cedars,—the Cedrus atlantica, C. Libani, and C. Deodara, but the most eminent botanists consider them as mere varieties of the same species. The C. Libani is a very grand tree when it has plenty of room. The largest I ever saw is at Enfield, supposed to have been planted by Dr. Uvedale soon after 1660. Mr. Walford, however, believes it to be still older, and inclines to the traditionary view that it was planted by Cardinal Wolsey. The Rev. A. Bridges has three fine examples of this tree in the grounds attached to his house at Beddington (fig. 958). I have figured two {a and c\. Fig. 958.—Cedars of Lebanon and Elir. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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