476 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 
well at Murthly and other places. At Smeaton-Hepburn, a tree,’ planted in 
1847, was, in 1902, 69 feet high and 63 feet in girth. At Fordell, in Fifeshire, the 
property of Lord Buckinghamshire, 1 am informed by Mr. Sibbald that a number 
of cedars were planted by Mr. Fowler, then head gardener, 42 years ago on a damp 
sandy soil and well sheltered by other trees. The average height of the Algerian 
cedars in 1906 was 48 feet, with an average girth of 4 feet 4 inches, and of the 
deodars 33 feet by 34 feet. The majority of them are in good health, though 
the Algerian have made by far the best trees, and as the soil and climate of 
Fifeshire do not seem to be so favourable to the growth of trees generally as 
those of Perthshire, Morayshire, or parts of Ross-shire, this seems to prove that 
the tree may be planted in Scotland with good hopes of success. 
The finest Atlas cedar in Ireland is at Fota, and is of the glaucous variety. It 
was planted, according to Lord Barrymore, in 1850, and measured in 1904 83 feet 
high by 7 feet 7 inches in girth (Plate 1 38). At Carton, the seat of the Duke of 
Leinster, a tree, which is, from its habit, apparently an Atlas cedar, was, in 1903, 80 
feet high by 9 feet in girth, At Powerscourt a glaucous specimen was in the same 
year 50 feet high by 5 feet in girth. 
In the south of France and North Italy this tree grows better and faster than in 
England. Perhaps the best that I have seen are in the public garden at Aix en 
Savoie, where there is a grove of splendid trees 90 to 95 feet high, though only 
planted in 1862. They average 6 to 7 feet in girth, and there are many self-sown 
seedlings near them. On the shores of the Lago Maggiore the tree succeeds per- 
fectly, several fine trees in the grounds of the Villa Barbot near Intra being 90 feet 
or over, and one 74 feet in girth. It seemed to me likely to become a most valuable 
forest tree in this region. (H. J. E-) 
CEDRUS DEODARA, Deopar 
Cedrus Deodara, Lawson, Agric. Man. 381 (1836); Loudon, Avd. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2428 (1838); 
Brandis, Forest Flora, 516 (1874), and Indian Trees, 691 (1906); Ravenscroft, Pinet. Brit. iii. 
225 (1884); Masters, Gard. Chron. x. 423, f. 52 (1891); Kent, Veitch’s Man. Conifera, 
411 (1900). 
Cedrus Liban, Barrelier, var. Deodara, Hooker, Himal. Journ. i. 257 (1854), Wat. Hist. Rev. ii. 11, 
tt. 1-3 (1862), and FZ. Brit. Ind. v. 653 (1888); Collett, Hora Simlensis, 486 (1902) ; Gamble, 
Ind. Timbers, 710 (1902). 
Cedrus indica, Chambray, Arb. Res. Contf. 341 (1845). 
Pinus Deodara, Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 69 (1814). 
Abies Deodara, Lindley, Penny Cycl. 9 (1833). 
Young trees with pendulous leader. Branchlets always pendulous, grey and 
densely pubescent. Leaves up to 2 inches long, as thick as broad. Cones large 
and broad, ellipsoid, 4 to 5 inches long by 3 to 4 inches in diameter, rounded at 
the apex ; scales 2 to 24 inches wide, with claw not inflected, usually less tomentose 
than in the other cedars. 
1 Sir A. Buchan-Hepburn in Proc. Berwick Nat. Club, xviii, 210 (1904). 
