Cedrus 4^ 3 



important difference is the height attained in the wild state, the deodar becoming 

 very tall, the Cyprus cedar remaining short, with the Lebanon and Algerian cedars 

 intermediate in size. They differ in their period of vegetation. At Kew the deodar 

 is the first to put forth young leaves in spring ; the Lebanon usually follows a fort- 

 night later ; and the Algerian generally comes out last, after an interval of a few 

 days. They may be correctly considered geographical races of the same species ; but 

 for arboricultural purposes it is most convenient to rank them as distinct species. 



CEDRUS LI BAN I, Lebanon Cedar 



Cedrus Libani, Barrelier, Plantce, Icon. 499 (1714); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2402 (1838); 



Ravenscroft, Pinet. Brit. iii. 247 (1884); Kent, Veitch's Man. Coniferm, 415 (1900). 

 Cedrus patula, Koch, Dendrol. ii. 268 (1873). 

 Pinus Cedrus, Linnaeus, Sp. PL looi (1753). 

 Larix Cedrus, Miller, Card. Diet. ed. viii. No. 3 (1768). 

 Larix patula, Salisbury, Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 314 (1807). 

 Abies Cedrus, Poiret in Lamarck, Diet. vi. 510 (1804). 



Leading shoot of young trees erect or slightly bent, not pendulous. Branchlets 

 not pendulous, glabrous or with slight short pubescence. Leaves up to i^ inch in 

 length, broader than thick. Cones large and broad, ellipsoid, 3 to \\ inches long, 

 if to 2\ inches wide ; scales 2 inches or more in width, with the claw inflected 

 almost at a right angle. 



Varieties 



1. Var. argentea, Antoine et Kotschy, Iter. Cilic. No. 417. Trees with 

 glaucous foliage, growing wild in the Cilician Taurus, intermingled with the 

 ordinary form. This variety appears in cultivation, but is rarer than the glaucous 

 form of C. atlantica. 



2. Var. decidua, Carri^re, Conif. 372 (1867). Leaves deciduous. A tree of 

 this kind, slow in growth and bushy in habit, was obtained by Sdn^clauze in 1851. 

 Kent mentions one growing at Westgate near Chichester.^ Webster reports^ 

 another, 65 feet high, growing on Lord Derby's property in Kent, and said to be 

 in perfect health, though from its bare appearance in winter it has often been 

 supposed to be dying. 



3. Var. tortuosa. On the lawn of a private house at Dulwich, belonging to 

 the Dulwich College estate, there is a remarkable cedar, a photograph of which 

 was sent to Kew in 1903. The stem and all the branches are spirally twisted. 



The Lebanon cedar is variable in habit, and numerous supposed varieties are 

 mentioned by Beissner, as nana,^ a dwarf form ; stricta, narrowly pyramidal in habit ; 

 pendula, with pendulous branches and branchlets; and viridis, with bright green 

 shining foliage. * 



' But on writing to Captain Norman, who was the authority for this, he tells me that the tree is now dead, and that in 

 his opinion the deciduous habit, which was regular and unfailing, was due to constitutional weakness, caused by uncongenial 

 surroundings, in proof of which he states that another tree at the same place raised from a seed talcen from the same cone, was 

 much more robust and showed no abnormal tendency. (H. J. E.) ^ Hardy Coniferous Trees, 27 (1896). 



' A specimen of the dwarf cedar, only 4 feet high and of considerable age, is growing in grounds adjoining one of the 

 oldest parks at Hemel Hempstead. The branches are flattened, horizontal, and very close together, giving the plant a dense, 

 stiff appearance. Card. Chron. xix. 563 (1896). 



