Abies 
deodara 
152 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFERZE: 
raised from a seed out of the very same cone with 
that from which this tree at Kew was raised, yet | 
strikingly different in habit. There is an excellent 
paper by Joseph Hooker on the three Cedars—of 
Lebanon, of the Himalaya, and of the Atlas in the 
Natural History Review, vol. 2. (1862). He is of 
opinion that they must be considered either as 
three distinct species, or all as varieties of one 
type. 
The Deodar is now planted in most parks and 
pleasure grounds in Eneland; seems to be quite 
as hardy as the Lebanon Cedar, and of much 
more rapid growth. My brother Henry observed 
that the //eodar, in the Himalaya, is to a certain 
extent dioecious, some trees producing scarcely 
anything but male catkins, and others an abund- 
ance of female cones, with few, if any, male 
flowers. The same appears to be the case with 
the Lebanon Cedars, (see Loudon’s remark near 
the bottom of p. 2404). 
(May, 1861). All our Meodars have stood the 
ordeal of this extraordinary winter, without injury, 
except the large one at the east end of the Pleasure 
Ground ; this was much cut, and lost most of its 
leaves, but is now putting out fresh ones. 
(1876.) All the three //eodars I have mentioned 
are healthy, and growing vigorously; and _ still 
retain their distinctive peculiarities of habit ; one 
of them—the one in the Pleasure Ground—bears 
