EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 563 



It cannot be considered hardy north of Philadelphia, although 

 there are a few fine specimens near the city of New York. It will 

 probably become. a grand tree in the upper table lands and moun- 

 tains of the southern States. 



There is a new variety recently brought out in England with 

 slenderer and more pendulous branches, and named botanically the 

 C. Lpendula. 



THE DEODAR CEDAR, Cedrus deodora, belongs to the same 

 family as the Cedar of Lebanon, and has many of the same 

 characteristics at maturity, but when young is far more graceful in 

 its branching and spray. It resembles the hemlock in its branching, 

 but its foliage is not so soft to the touch, nor so pleasing in color, 

 being a bluish or grayish green. Those who have seen it in its 

 native localities on the mountains of northern Hindostan, describe 

 it as a tree of colossal dimensions, uniting gracefulness and 

 grandeur beyond all other evergreens. It is found in the same 

 regions where the Bhotan pine is indigenous, near latitude 30 

 north, at elevations from six to twelve thousand feet above the sea. 

 It has been pretty well tried in this country, and has not proved hardy 

 in the northern States. Sargent mentions that its habit of making 

 a late autumnal growth, makes it peculiarly liable to injury in 

 winter, and that it is quite unreliable. He believed they would do 

 best on the northerly side of hills or other protection from too much 

 sun, and in soils that are deep, poor, and dry ; while Mr. Meehan, 

 of Philadelphia, reports that all deodars on wet low soils are 

 uninjured, while those on dry are killed outright. It is not unlikely 

 that specimens may be made to grow to large size as far north as 

 Lake Ontario, but such successes will probably be exceptional. 

 Trees which never attain large size may, if but half-hardy, be pro- 

 tected at every age, but those which are planted for their ultimate 

 greatness should be of sorts that will not be endangered by extremes 

 of heat or cold after they become too large to protect. The deodar 

 when young is not so beautiful as the hemlock. We need not there- 

 fore feel sad over our failure to domesticate it. 



THE SILVERY DEODAR CEDAR. C. d. argentea. This is a 

 variegated variety of extraordinary beauty, of which we have only 



