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venience of sale, is rather apt to die. I am not aware that it has ever yet been 
tried in quantity under forest conditions; but, so far as I have seen, it is not subject 
to insect or fungoid diseases which attack and kill the deodar. ’ 
Many of the grafted trees of the glaucous variety, which are usually sold by 
nurserymen, are one-sided and unsightly objects, for a good many years after planting 
at any rate; and though it is claimed by some that grafting, if properly done, does 
not permanently disfigure the tree, yet I would always prefer seedlings. Even if not 
quite so glaucous in colour as the best of the others, a certain number of this tint will 
generally appear among them. 
The date at which the Algerian cedar was first introduced to this country is 
somewhat uncertain; but it must have been subsequent to 1844, and if any older 
ones exist they cannot be recognised with certainty. Several trees appearing older 
than this have been supposed to be African, on account of their habit and cones, but 
there is nothing on record to prove it. 
According to Ravenscroft, the oldest of which we have an exact record were 
raised at Eastnor Castle in 1845, from cones gathered by Lord Somers himself at 
Téniet-el-H4ad. In December 1860 the tallest of these was 184 feet; in December 
1866, 31 feet. When I measured it in 1906, it was 77 feet by 8 feet 1 inch. 
REMARKABLE TREES 
The tallest tree that I have measured in England is at Linton Park, Kent, and 
is a glaucous tree, which, from its shape, seems to be grafted, though there is no 
evidence of this. It was 80 feet high in 1902. 
The largest recorded at the Conifer Conference in 1891 was at Mulgrave Castle, 
Yorkshire,! the seat of the Marquess of Normanby. It was then 66 feet by 5 feet 10 
inches. Mr. Corbett informs me that it is now 72 feet by 8 feet 4 inches. 
On Ashampstead Common, Berks, there is a handsome and well-grown tree 
which has grown up in a semi-wild condition among other trees, and which was 
63 feet by 64 feet when I last saw it in 1907 (Plate 137). 
At Ashridge there are several fine glaucous trees, raised from seeds, which were 
brought. by Earl Brownlow, in 1862, from Téniet-el-Haad ; the best of them already 
measures 58 feet by 6 feet. At Merton Hall, Norfolk, there is a very well-shaped 
tree measuring 60 feet by 6 feet. 
At Bicton there is a fine tree measuring 68 feet by 7 feet 6 inches. At 
Coldrinick, in Cornwall, there is a well-shaped tree which, in 1905, was 64 feet 
by 5% feet. At Heanton Satchville, North Devon, I saw a healthy young tree ina 
shrubbery, which was clear of branches to 20 feet up, and though 48 feet high, was 
only 2 feet 7 inches in girth, showing the ability of this cedar to thrive without much 
space, even in a climate so much damper and cooler than that of Algeria. 
At Tortworth there is a cedar about 50 feet high with very short leaves, and 
remarkably fastigiate habit, which seems to belong to the variety named /astzgzata. 
In Scotland I have not seen any so large as in England; but the tree grows 
1 A tree at Grimston, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, reported in 1900 to be 70 feet high and 13 feet in girth at three feet from 
was said to be sixty-five years old, is probably a Lebanon cedar. Cf. Gard. Chron. xxviii. 210 (1900). 
the ground, which A 
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