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stand-by. The stiffer shape of the Atlas Cedar, its 
more ascending branches of unequal length, its less 
flattened head, and the often shorter and more crisp 
expression of its leaves, these must be made the 
ground of judgment. 
The Cedrus Atlantica takes its name from the 
North African Mountain range, Mt. Atlas, which for 
reasons more mythical than geographical, was sup- 
posed to be situate on Atlantic shores. These 
mountains in turn derive their name from the great 
titanic champion and weight-carrier of mythological 
history. It will be remembered by: all boys, let us 
assume, who have enjoyed the privileges of a classical 
education in our public schools, that the defeated 
giant was condemned by the superior authorities of 
the Court of Jupiter to carry the heavens upon his 
shoulders. Doubtless as a conquered victim he was 
subjected to a heavy penance in life, but when that 
ceased he acquired a certain compensating consolation 
in a posthumous fame, both in verse— 
On Atlantean shoulders fit to bear, 
The weight of mighty monarchies— 
and in the bestowal indirectly of a name upon a tree 
that has become a great favourite with us. 
The C. Deodara is not to be outdone in a claim in the 
direction of religious or secular association by other 
Cedars. The word is derived from Sanscrit language, 
Deva (Deity) and Dara (wood). It was the Devadara, 
the tree god of the Shaster, the sacred book of the 
Hindoo religion. 
The C. Deodara with us, with its longer leaves, its 
spiry pyramidal form, its long drooping terminal 
shoots, is a familiar figure. These, so far—it was 
only introduced in 1831—are the characteristics of 
the tree with us here, It is so common with us, 
