242 THE CEDAR. 
Lebanon ; but they are deciduous, and fall to scales imme- 
diately on becoming ripe, in October or November. 
The seeds should be sown in April, and the mode of rearing 
them is exactly that recommended for the cedar of Lebanon. 
The seeds are generally found to lose their vitality if kept 
beyond seven or eight months. Plants are sometimes pro- 
pagated by cuttings, and by grafting and inarching on the 
larch ; but seedlings are far preferable. The plant bears a 
strong resemblance to the cedar of Lebanon; but it grows 
more freely, and with pendulous spray, resembling the green 
waters of a playing fountain, and the diameter of the space 
occupied by its branches, in open situations, is generally 
equal to its height. Like the cedar of Lebanon, it is admir- 
ably adapted for a lawn tree; but the great beauty of the 
young plant frequently occasions its insertion in a spot far too 
limited for its full development, such as the parterre, or 
too close to the residence, where ultimately it must lose its 
effect in embellishment ; whereas, if properly situated, with 
ample space, and a congenial soil, it will rise in its true char- 
acter, combining with its beauty a majesty and a grandeur 
unsurpassed by any other tree, native or foreign. 
The timber of the deodara is compact and resinous ; it emits 
a refreshing odour, is susceptible of a high polish, and a piece 
of it has been compared to a slab of brown agate. It has 
been found perfectly sound in the roofs of temples which 
must have stood at least 200 years. 
In the Quarterly Review for January 1838, in reviewing 
Moorcroft’s Travels in Ladaka, Kashmir, etc., an account is 
given of the excursion of Captain Johnston, in August 1827, 
to penetrate the Himalaya to the source of the Jumna, and 
thence to the confines of Chinese Tartary. They traced the 
course of the river up to Jumnotree. Cursola, a small village 
in the very heart of the chasm, is described as an isolated 
cluster of about twenty-five houses, 9000 feet above the sea, 
with three or four small temples, having excellent roofs of 
carved deodar wood. The glen from this village to Jumnotree 
was gloomy, and the peaks were completely hidden by forests 
