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great reluctance we feel constrained to admit it is not to be de- 

 pended upon. It is certainly the most delusive of all evergreens. 

 We have upon this place raised specimens twelve to fifteen feet 

 high, as perfect as could be, but which the winters of 18556 

 severely injured, and the subsequent winter finished to the snow- 

 line. These trees are now about eight or nine feet high, with 

 several leaders, and nearly fifty feet in circumference, mostly 

 holding their color well so far this winter, though having been 

 subjected to a temperature, for two days, of 15 below zero. 

 The fault of the tree (if so charming a tree can have any 

 fault) is its habit, like the Cryptomeria and Taxodium sem- 

 pervirens, and many other of the new evergreens, of making a 

 late autumnal growth without ripening off its wood. 



The fact that the tree below the snow-line almost always 

 appears fresh and green, proves, we think, quite satisfactorily, 

 that some protection, and no or little sun, will go far towards 

 establishing its hardihood. A wood, or the north side ot 

 buildings, will accomplish this ; and if to this, we add such a 

 preparation of soil as will retard rather than stimulate the tree, 

 so that by accomplishing an early growth it may ripen off its 

 wood, we think we may again hope to acclimatize the 

 Deodar, which as now grown in the Middle States, hardly 

 amounts to more than a bush, annually increasing in amplitude, 

 but not in height. There are portions of this country, in the 

 neighborhood of Washington possibly, and in Southern Vir- 

 ginia, and about that latitude, and as far south as Augusta, 

 Ga., where it succeeds admirably. In the extreme south it 

 suffers from the sun in summer as much as it does here from 

 the sun in winter. There are, however, specimens at Mr. 

 Affleck's, near Natchez, twenty-five to thirty feet high, and fea- 

 thering to the ground. At Flushing, L. I., in Ohio, in New Jer- 

 sey, and near New York, it does best in some shelter ; though at 

 " Woodlawn," near Princeton, a specimen, ten feet high, and 

 thirty-three in circumference, stands well in the most exposed 

 situations. When first imported, it was supposed to be hardier 

 than the Cedar of Lebanon, but subsequent experience does 

 not confirm this at least in our case. 



C. deodara viridis (the Green deodar), C. deodara rolusta 



