THE CEDARS. 65 



Cedrus Deodara erecta, Cripps, the Erect-growing Deodar 



Cedar. 

 Syn. Cedrus Deodara verticillata glauca, Cripps. 



This is a fine, erect growing variety, with the leaves of a 

 much more silvery hue than that of the common Deodar. 



It is in the nursery of Mr. Cripps, at Tunbridge Wells, and 

 the handsomest of all the silver tinted varieties. 



No. 3. Cedrus Libani, Barrelier, the Cedar of Lebanon. 



Syn. Pinus Cedrus, Linnceus. 

 Abies Cedrus, Poirek 

 Larix Cedrus, Miller. 

 patula, Salisbury. 

 ,, Orientalis, Tournefort. 

 Cedrus Phcenicea, Renealm. 



Leaves simple, very dense, in alternate tufts of about 30 in 

 number, evergreen, rigid, partially four-sided, or cylindrical, 

 tapering to the point, straight, one inch long, sharp-pointed, 

 and of a dark grass-green colour. Branches horizontal, with 

 ,|the branchlets disposed in a fiat, fan -like manner on the 

 ilbranches, very numerous, and thickly set with leaves. Cones 

 j erect, ovate, flattened at the ends, and depressed, four or five 

 linches long, and two inches and a half wide, with rather a long 

 foot-stalk, of a grayish-brown colour, and remaining firmly 

 jattached for years to the branches. The cones require two 

 rears to ripen, and exude a large quantity of resinous matter 

 IWhile growing. Scales fiat, and firmly pressed against each 

 ipther, one inch and a half broad, obtuse, and truncated at the 

 ijummit, very thin, leathery, slightly denticulated at the edges, 

 f a reddish colour, and shining on the fiat part. Seeds some- 

 what triangular, soft, and surmounted by a broad and very 

 jhin membranaceous wing more than an inch long. 

 A noble tree, with wide-spreading horizontal branches, grow- 

 g from 60 to 80 feet high, and 30 feet in circumference, with 

 fiat, tabular top when old. 

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