26 HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES. 



and exposed sites. In a young state the Indian cedar is 

 rendered highly ornamental by reason of the decidedly pen- 

 dulous leader and gracefully drooping branch-tips, abundantly 

 supplied with glaucous green foliage of the richest and most 

 delicate description. The male or pollen cones, which are 

 from 2 to 3 inches long and standing erect, are produced in 

 such quantity that they are quite a feature of the tree ; while 

 the seed-bearing cones are cylindrical, 3 to 4 inches long, and 

 depressed at both ends. They are usually produced on the 

 upper sides of the stout top branches. The rate of growth 

 is rapid, 70 feet in height having been attained by specimens 

 in England in fifty years. Timber produced in this country 

 is fine grained, but soft, and not at all durable. 



C. Deodara, crassifolia is altogether a less orna- 

 mental tree than the species, the thick short branches being 

 pendulous at the tips to only a very small extent. The leaves 

 are short and stout when compared with those of the parent. 



C. Deodara robusta. — In the best forms of this 

 variety the growth is stout and long, and the foliage more 

 distinctly silvery than in the species. There seems, however, 

 to be many worthless forms in cultivation under the name. 



C. Deodara viridis has the foliage of a rich and deep 

 green, more resembling that of C. atlantica, and seems quite 

 constant in character. 



C. Libani, Loudon. Lebanon Cedar. {Synonyms: — 

 Pinus Cednis, Linnaeus ; Larix Cedrus, Miller ; Abies Cedrus, 

 Poiret ; Larix patiila, Salisbury ; Cedrus pati/la, Koch.) 

 Syrian Mountains, Cyprus. About 1666. — With its massive 

 and well clothed trunk, far-spreading and flatly pendulous 

 branches, and deep glaucous green foliage, this is beyond 

 doubt one of the grandest and most majestic as well as 

 distinct and easily recognised of all trees. When wanted as 

 a purely ornamental specimen, the Lebanon cedar must have 

 plenty of room for perfect development of root and branch, 

 as when crowded with other trees in the forest the appear- 

 ance is miserable, from the dying back of the branches and 

 branch tips. The branches are usually arranged horizont- 



