>From Nelson Evening Mail ( N.Z. ) Volume XLII, 24 April 1907, Page 1. Many cedars are ascribed with more or less certainty to the 17th or 18th century. Near Pope's villa at Twickenham for instance, says the "County Gentleman," there are some fine old specimens, concerning which tradition narrates that they were grown from cones sent to the poet by Lady Mary Wortley MONTAGU. An earlier sowing than any of those hitherto mentioned may be that of the fine tree on the lawn of the rectory of Childrey, in Berkshire, which is believed to have been grown by Dr. POCOCK , the first laudian Professor of Arabic in Oxford, who then held the living.