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Hiram for his great temple. Much interesting matter has been 

 written about them which cannot be discussed here. 



The third is the beautiful Deodar Cedar of India. Like the 

 Atlas and Lebanon Cedars, this one. too. exhibits a conspicuous 

 flat-spreading top in old age but has a broad pyramidal form when 

 young. Though possibly the most beautiful of the cedars, the 

 Deodar is the tenderest. Consequently efforts to raise it in the 

 Garden have failed. In Pasadena. California, there is a certain 

 avenue that was lined with these trees half a century or so ago. 

 Today they constitute the finest display of these trees in this 

 country, for they have become magnificent specimens fifty or sixty 

 feet high. Every Christmas they are illuminated and are the 

 pride of the land about them. 



The cedars are evergreen trees, differing in that respect from 

 the larches, which they closely resemble in foliage. Both have 

 numerous needle-like leaves borne in clusters. Though this applies 

 also to the pines, there is little chance for confusion if one com- 

 pares them but once. 



