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Cedrus Deodara. (Deodar. Indian Cedar. No. 37.) 

 This tree stands in a spot pretty well hidden from the 

 Walk. It is down the bank, in the tangle of growths 

 that make up the space southwest of the Green Houses, 

 known as the old nurseries. If you take the Walk 

 that runs from the steps at the back of the northwest 

 corner of the northerly Green House, and go south 

 with it, behind the Green Houses, following it along 

 until you come pretty near the third fork of the Walk, 

 you will find the tree. The Deodar stands about in 

 line with the end of the Walk at the southerly ex- 

 tremity of the Green House beds. It is just a little 

 up the slope, to the west of the purple-leaved Euro- 

 pean hazel which you can find easily by its dark 

 crimson leaves — the only crimson foliaged shrub in 

 this vicinity. The Deodar you can recognize by its 

 linear (narrow and with margins parallel) leaves gath- 

 ered together in little alternate bunches or clusters. 

 These leaves are sharp-pointed, stiff and straight, about 

 an inch or two inches long. They are generally three 

 or four-sided in shape, and evergreen. This feature 

 distinguishes the tree from the larch, which drops its 

 leaves in the autumn (deciduous). When your eye 

 fastens on the little leaf clusters, you might easily 

 think the tree a larch, if you did not know that its 

 leaves were evergreen. The cones, too, of the Cedrus 

 are distinctive — growing erect on the branches and 

 falling apart when mature. The cones of the larch 

 are erect also, but do not break apart, are very per- 

 sistent on the branch, and when they do fall, fall as 

 a whole cone. The cones of the Deodara are about 



