70 On the Introduction of the 



On the Introduction of the Magnificent Forest Tree, the 

 Deodar, from India into England. 



The cultivation of this magnificent forest tree is about to 

 engage the serious attention of the Government, and one or 

 more of the royal forests are to be planted with it. Mr 

 Jameson, Director, Botanical Gardens, North- West Provinces, 

 India, sent home last season, by order of the Governor- 

 General, upwards of two thousand pounds of Deodar seeds ; 

 and in order that parties now cultivating the Indian Cedar 

 on a large scale might see the dimensions the timber attains, 

 he also sent home four planks twenty feet in length, four feet 

 and a half wide, and four inches thick, procured in the forests 

 of Kooloo, in the Kohistan of the Punjaub. For years past 

 from five to six maunds (400 to 500 lb.) of seed have been 

 despatched annually by him to the Court of Directors, by the 

 overland route, for distribution to public institutions and pri- 

 vate individuals ; and young plants which, ten or twelve years 

 ago, used to sell for £5 and £6 each, may now be had of the 

 nurserymen at twenty shillings per hundred. 



Cultivation of the Deodar in England. 



When, at the instance of the late Lord Auckland, at that 



time Govern or- General of India, the Court of Directors 



ordered a large quantity of seed of the Deodar to be imported 



annually* for distribution here, a service was rendered to the 



* 400 to 500 lb., which are liberally distributed to public and private 

 gardens throughout the country. In addition to the seeds of the Deodar tree, 

 seeds of the following coniferous trees are also sent to England from the Saha- 

 rumpore Botanical Garden, being collected by the seed collectors of that noble 

 institution in the Forests of the Himalayas, viz. — 

 Pinus excelsa. 



Gerardiana. 

 Brunoniana. 

 longifolia. 

 P. (Abies) Smithiana. 

 Picea Webbiana. 



. . . Pindrow. 

 Cupressus torulosa. 

 Juniperus excelsa. 

 religiosa. 

 and lastly, Pinus Royleana, a magnificent new Pine discovered last season in 



