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cones, flowers, and leaves differ a little from that tree in colour, and 
its cones are also thicker and its leaves larger. It is distinguished 
from the Cedar of Lebanon at first sight by its young shoots, which 
hang down like those of the weeping willow, but which become 
straight in the autumn and following spring. This disposition of 
its shoots, and the pyramidal form of the tree, give to it a most 
graceful appearance. It acquires magnificent proportions in India, 
where it attains the height of 150 feet, with a circumference of 
30 feet. 
Its wood differs much from that of the Cedar of Lebanon ; it is 
very compact, very resinous, diffuses an agreeable perfume, and 
appears possessed of qualities which the ancients attributed to the 
wood of the Cedar of Lebanon. It takes such a beautiful polish 
that a section 4 feet in diameter, sent by Wallich to Lambert, 
appeared to be a piece of agate. The wood of this tree is employed 
in the manufacture of all kinds of things. It is so lasting that it is 
used as a shelter exposed to the air or in water. It has been found 
perfectly sound in the timber-work of Indian temples, which were 
not less than two hundred years old. Dr Lindley says that Moor- 
croft sent him a piece of this wood, which was part of the bridge of 
Zein-ool-Kuddul at Ladak, where it had been exposed to the water 
for almost four hundred years. Loudon, who tells this fact 
(Arboretum, vol. iv., p. 2431), does not say in what condition this 
wood was. ‘The same author repeats after Moorcroft, that Rajah- 
Schah had employed in the construction of a house some of this 
wood, still quite sound, although procured from the ruins of an 
edifice built two hundred and twenty-five years before by the 
Emperor Akbar. 
The Deodar, or Cedar of India, was introduced into Britain, 
in 1831, by Mr Leslie Melville. It has grown and thriven per- 
fectly in the open air, even in the north of Scotland, and it has been 
found more robust than the Cedar of Lebanon, and does not 
appear to suffer much from the severe winters nor late frosts. 
Loudon says (Arboretum, vol. iv., p. 2432) that the price of 
cedar plants in the London nurseries in 1838 was two guineas 
each. 
