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Some of you will know the cedars at the Uniacke estate in Mt Uniacke. On p. 27 of the Nova Scotia Museum Curatorial Report No. 70, "The Uniacke Estate Seminar, 1989", then-curator of botany Alex Wilson responded to the question, "Where did the cedars come from?", as follows: "Probably Richard John Uniacke or one of his successors introduced them. Cedar doesn't thrive in NS but they are holding their own on the estate. There is a lot of regneration. ...Not all the cedars in the province have been introduced though. There are some native stands in the Digby-Yarmouth area and some are rumoured to be in the Cobequids, although I haven't seen the latter ones. But most of what you see have been introduced as ornamentals. We believe wild ones were more common two or three hundred years ago because there are examples of the native people using them. We actually believe that the climate was such that they would do better here then, or possibly the leaf miner, which is one of the problems with them today, was less conspicuous." Sheila Stevenson 17 Stanbrae Rd Fergusons Cove Nova Scotia B3V 1G4 902 479-3740 phone smstevenson@eastlink.ca
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