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THE DEODAR. 



of a quarter of an inch, but the "Wood^^^^^^^ 

 withstanding this long exposure to the weathei 

 was neither crumbly nor worm-eaten t^^^^ only 



perceptible e^^^ ^-S' wood having 



j-agged from f ^^J,'* He also obtained 

 been often washed by tne ram. -t ^ • t „riaVh 

 specimens of the wood from a ^^^^gX n^^^^^^^ 



close o-ram, capable oi receiving :i & 



^.olish • so much so indeed, that a table formed of 

 ?ht ec'tion of a trunk nearly four feet in diameter, 

 has been compared to a slab of brown agate. 



It is reaSy propagated by seeds, and may be 

 ^elZloJJ^^,^- It has a^obeen grafted 

 on the Larch, but can scarcely be expected to 

 attain perfection while dependent on the roots of 

 fdSous tree, the duration of which co^^^^^^^ 

 to its own, is very limited. It has ^l^o been graft^^^^ 

 o. the Cedar of L^^^^^^^^^^ 



?S5ion o? D:oTa5; seeds to the Hon. William 

 Melville, who brought home sgne cone^^ 



quantities, and trees are , , • ^ ice of 



although they were soldm 1838 at the nign price 

 twSeas each, seedlings two yearsoldma^ 

 irXhased at the rate of four shiUings a dozen. 



largest plantation of Deodars which has 

 been mad?in Europe is that of W. Ogelvie, Esq. 

 secretory of the Zoological Society, who on his 

 ate of Altinachree in Tyrone, has planted eleven 



