47^ The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



well at Murthly and other places. At Smeaton-Hepburn, a tree,' planted in 

 1847, was, in 1902, 69 feet high and 6^ feet in girth. At Fordell, in Fifeshire, the 

 property of Lord Buckinghamshire, I am informed by Mr. Sibbald that a number 

 of cedars were planted by Mr. Fowler, then head gardener, 42 years ago on a damp 

 sandy soil and well sheltered by other trees. The average height of the Algerian 

 cedars in 1906 was 48 feet, with an average girth of 4 feet 4 inches, and of the 

 deodars 33 feet by 3I feet. The majority of them are in good health, though 

 the Algerian have made by far the best trees, and as the soil and climate of 

 Fifeshire do not seem to be so favourable to the growth of trees generally as 

 those of Perthshire, Morayshire, or parts of Ross-shire, this seems to prove that 

 the tree may be planted in Scotland with good hopes of success. 



The finest Atlas cedar in Ireland is at Fota, and is of the glaucous variety. It 

 was planted, according to Lord Barrymore, in 1850, and measured in 1904 83 feet 

 high by 7 feet 7 inches in girth (Plate 138). At Carton, the seat of the Duke of 

 Leinster, a tree, which is, from its habit, apparently an Atlas cedar, was, in 1903, 80 

 feet high by 9 feet in girth. At Powerscourt a glaucous specimen was in the same 

 year 50 feet high by 5 feet in girth. 



In the south of France and North Italy this tree grows better and faster than in 

 England. Perhaps the best that I have seen are in the public garden at Aix en 

 Savoie, where there is a grove of splendid trees 90 to 95 feet high, though only 

 planted in 1862. They average 6 to 7 feet in girth, and there are many self-sown 

 seedlings near them. On the shores of the Lago Maggiore the tree succeeds per- 

 fectly, several fine trees in the grounds of the Villa Barbot near Intra being 90 feet 

 or over, and one 7^ feet in girth. It seemed to me likely to become a most valuable 

 forest tree in this region. (H. J. E.) 



CEDRUS DEODARA, Deodar 



Cedrus Deodara, Lawson, Agric. Man. 381 (1836); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2428 (1838); 



Brandis, Forest Flora, 516 (1874), and Indian Trees, 691 (1906); Ravenscroft, Pinet. Brit. iii. 



225 (1884); Masters, Gard. Chron. x. 423, f. 52 (1891); Kent, Veitch's Man. Coniferce, 



411 (1900). 

 Cedrus Libatti, Barrelier, var. Deodara, Hooker, Himal. Joum. i. 257 (1854), Nat. Hist. Rev. ii 11, 



tt. 1-3 (1862), and H. Brit. Ind. v. 653 (1888); CoUett, Flora Simlensis, 486 (1902) ; Gamble, 



Ind. Timbers, 710 (1902). 

 Cedrus indica, Chambray, Arb. Res. Conif. 341 (1845). 

 Pinus Deodara, Roxburgh, Hart. Beng. 69 (1814). 

 Abies Deodara, Lindley, Penny Cycl. 9 (1833). 



Young trees with pendulous leader. Branchlets always pendulous, grey and 

 densely pubescent. Leaves up to 2 inches long, as thick as broad. Cones large 

 and broad, ellipsoid, 4 to 5 inches long by 3 to 4 inches in diameter, rounded at 

 the apex ; scales 2 to 2\ inches wide, with claw not inflected, usually less tomentose 

 than in the other cedars. 



' Sir A. Buchan.Hepburn in Proc. Berwick Na(. Club, xviii. 210 (1904). 



