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(the Robust deodar), are only varieties of the common deo- 

 dar the former being of a slenderer habit, and more vivid 

 green, and the latter much coarser and stouter. As these two 

 varieties are out with us for the first time this winter, we can 

 not as yet say how hardy they may prove, and we have no 

 returns from any other place. 



We may as well, perhaps, add here, that Mr. Meehan 

 reports, near Philadelphia, " all Deodars on wet low soils are 

 uninjured, while those on dry are killed outright." This is 

 the contrary of our theory and experience here certainly, 

 but facts are better than arguments, and time alone will show 

 whether a damp or dry soil is most congenial to this plant. 



C. Lebani (Cedar of Lebanon.) This is another variety of 

 Syrif the genus Cedrus, so distinct and remarkable 



Pinus cedrus. ^^ we regret being compelled to say it has 



Cedrus Phoenicia. J 



also fallen short ot what was expected and 

 hoped of it ; and we doubt, if, with a few exceptions, there are 

 more specimens now in this country, or much larger, than 

 when Mr. Downing wrote his first edition. After the specimen 

 at Throgg's Neck (Mr. Ashe's), the next best we know of is at 

 Woodlawn (Mr. Field's), at Princeton, N. J., where a specimen 

 (Fig. 38) planted in 1842 is now thirty-six feet high, bearing 

 cones, and may be considered beyond all risk ; and also some 

 trees at Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia, planted by 

 Mr. J. J. Smith, the founder of that most lovely and interesting 

 of rural cemeteries. 



These trees were only slightly browned in the severe winters 

 of 1855-6. But Mr. Field's soil is a light sandy loam, and 

 that of Laurel Hill, a gravel or disentegrated rock, lying high 

 above the surface of the Schuylkill, and so protected by trees 

 as to allow even the Gordonia pubescens to flourish to the 

 height of forty feet, strewing the ground in September with its 

 fragrant blossoms. In both these cases, as in our own, the soil 

 has been dry, and the tree not stimulated by a damp, rich 

 position ; and although the winter of 1855-6 reduced, with us, 

 a tree of fifteen feet to eight, yet other specimens, a little less 

 exposed to the full influence of the morning sun, suffered 

 simply a little browning of the leaves, and have since gone 

 through an ordinary winter without any injury, leading us to 



