134 TREE-PLANTING. 



The Indian Cedar (C. deodar a}. This tree was 

 first introduced into Britain in 1822, and is found 

 growing on lofty elevations in Cashmere, Nepaul, 

 Kamaon, and other districts. In the Himalayas it 

 attains a height of 150 feet, and being accounted 

 sacred by the Hindoos, is frequently met with in the 

 neighbourhood of their ancient temples. 



It bears a strong family likeness to the cedar of 

 Lebanon, and is well adapted for a lawn tree, as it will 

 rise in a majestic and grand form, where ample space 

 is allotted to it. The seeds should be sown in April, 

 and the seedlings managed in the same way as those 

 of the cedar of Lebanon (growing more freely than 

 the latter), the diameter of the space occupied by its 

 spreading branches being generally equal to that of 

 its height. The seeds lose their vitality soon, and 

 the young plants fetch comparatively a high price, of 

 which they are well worthy, and it will doubtless be 

 ungrudgingly paid by those desirous of possessing 

 this beautiful tree. 



From what I have written the reader will be 

 enabled to gather which are the most appropriate 

 trees for different soils and situations, but it will be as 

 well perhaps again to give a slight summary of the 

 various kinds best adapted to particular positions. 



In rich swampy ground, too wet for the ordinary 

 timber trees, the large growing species of poplar, and 

 the tree-willow will be found to answer. A loose 

 deep earth will grow trees of any description. 

 A clayey soil, or a deep clayey gravel, is suited for 

 the oak, which it is found profitable to plant in con- 

 junction with larch, for, as I have before stated, the 

 oak derives its nourishment from a great depth, while 



