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44_6 Lebanon Cedars, Lebanon Mts. Cedars consists of several tiny hills rising above a streamlet which runs along the N. side. The grove is fortunately surrounded by a good stone wall built within recent years, - I think within 4 or 5 years. THe enclosure includes all the trees except 8. The area included is about 12 acres - but this is just a rough guess. The tree near the streamlet, on the path to the entrance gate, and near the entrance gate, is one of the finest and most symmetrical trees in the whole group. It is 7 ft. 1 in. in diameter at 4 ft., has a trunk 13 ft. high, before parting into 2 erect branches. It is 75 ft. h., 84 ft. broad. The tree to the north of the chapel is pointed out as the old- |
44_7 May 8, 1926 est. It has a trunk 14 ft. in diam. The trunk is irregular. It has many and wide-spreading branches which have become strongly buttressed. It is 65 ft. h. and about 165 feet broad across the crown. It stands on a steep northerly slope. I count 356 trees; but clusters evidently from one root I count as one. Trees felled long ago show in some cases evidence of this, 2 or 3 trunks from one stump. There is an enormous reproduction from seed of last season. The young seedlings are just appearing and many have just raised their cotyledons aloft still bearing the wing-banner, the old seed-coat still holding together the tips of the cotyledons, the straining seed- |
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