There are a great many fine cedars in the park here, seven of which are considered to be the first planted cedars in England, and are reckoned to be about 160 years old. The largest is a bush rather than a tree, with a trunk only 5 ft. or 6 ft. in length, and 18 ft. 6 in. in circumference at the ground. It divides into numerous upright growing branches of nearly equal size, and thus forms a large orbiculate bush about 70 ft. high. From this description it will appear to be a tree of no marked character. There is another rather higher, with a straight trunk, and regularly placed branches, which, though a fine and stately tree, has also nothing remarkable in its character. Most of the other trees have assumed grander and more picturesque forms, some of their branches having taken the character of arms, and having stretched out to a considerable distance. All of these trees bear abundance of cones, which fall, or the seeds drop from them, and germinate in abundance among the grass below; a very good hint to nurserymen to sow the seeds of the pine and fir tribe, with hardly any covering of soil, and to shade them from the sun.
