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On a Deciduous Cedrus Atlantica. By Commander 

 Norman, R.N., Fellow Bot. Soc, Edin. 



(PLATE V.) 



Two sorts of deciduous Conifers are known to botanists, 

 namely, the Larch and the deciduous Cypress, yet rare and 

 isolated instances have occurred of deciduous Cedars, the 

 first of which, Cedrus Libani var. decidua, was noticed by 

 Carri^re in 1851, and is recorded iu Vol. xiv. of the Journal 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society. He again visited the 

 tree in 1866, found it completely denuded of leaves, and 

 considered it a further proof of close affinity between Cedars 

 and Larches. 



Mr Adolphus Kent, the author of Veitch's *' Manual of 

 Coniferse," writes to me : — " I have had brought under 

 my notice a deciduous form of C. Deodara, so, with your 

 Atlantica, we have now a deciduous form of each of the 

 three Cedars." 



The reference is to the original of the photograph which 

 is reproduced on Plate V. 



During a recent visit to Chichester, my attention being 

 called to the tree in the grounds of Mrs Douglas Henty, 

 Westgate, I inspected it, and elicited the facts that about 

 sixteen years ago Mr Douglas Henty introduced from a 

 nursery three small seedling African Cedars, two of which 

 were planted in an adjacent open field, and the third in 

 the garden about fifteen yards from the house, seven feet 

 from a low wall beyond the house, and thirty-six feet from 

 the stem of a tall, bushy, clipped Bay. 



