114 TREES IN NATURE, MYTH & ART 



this there will be more to be said in a later 

 chapter. The common cypress, solemn- 

 looking both in form and the sombre hue of 

 its evergreen foliage, is an exotic that counts 

 for little or nothing in general landscape ; but 

 is a valuable foil amid the shrubs and smaller 

 trees of the garden. Two other trees, of very 

 different form from the cypress, and of larger 

 growth, but sharing its solemnity, are grown 

 in this country for ornament — the cedar of 

 Lebanon and the deodar or Indian cedar. 

 Ruskin's description of " flaked breadth " 

 applies to both of them ; the leafage taking 

 the general form of flat, horizontal layers; 

 which cut sharply across the main branches 

 of the tree. A cedar, in a park or on a lawn, 

 looks, as I have already suggested, as High- 

 land cattle look in a field, not perhaps exactly 

 out of place, but certainly as if it could hold 

 its own, as it does, amid scenes of natural 

 grandeur. We are all familiar with the 

 biblical passages in which the cedars of 

 Lebanon are used as symbols of majestic 

 strength and stateliness. 



Mr. Holman Hunt, in Pre-Raphaelitism 

 and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, writes 



