Trees and Shrubs 



Propagate by sowing the seeds one-sixteenth of an inch deep, 

 in the open ground in early Spring, and transplanting, where 

 required, the following season. 



Cedrus Libani. 

 (Young Specimen). 



CEDRUS. 



A majestic evergreen coniferous 

 tree with large spreading branches. 

 It delights in a deep well-drained 

 gravelly loam and a sheltered situa- 

 tion where it grows to the height of 

 from eighty to one hundred feet. 



Cedrus Libani (the Cedar of 

 Lebanon) is of similar habit to our 

 Monterey Cypress, both as a young 

 tree (when its habit is pyramidal) 

 and as a full-grown specimen when 

 it assumes the spreading, picturesque 

 form, with horizontal branches and 

 broad flat head of dark mossy-green 

 foliage, which is so greatly admired. 



Cedrus Atlantica (from Mount Atlas) is very similar in 

 appearance to Cedrus Libani, being, however, more pyramidal 

 in habit and having a lighter, more glaucous-colored leaf. Cedrus 

 Atlantica glauca, a silvery-leafed form of Cedrus Atlantica, is 

 a most desirable variety on account of its striking, silvery-grey 

 effect when planted among trees which have dark-green foliage. 



Cedrus Deodora (the East Indian Cedar) becomes a much 

 larger tree than any other of the species, growing, under favor- 

 able conditions, to the height of two hundred feet and having a 

 stem over ten feet in diameter. When young it is a gracefully 

 pyramidal tree, densely set with leaves of a glaucous green. 



Propagate by seeds sown one-eighth of an inch deep, in 

 Spring or as soon as ripe. 



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