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In the present rage for piniises, I should 

 like to say a word in recommendation of 

 the deodara cedar and of the araucaria 

 imbricata. They are both perfectly hardy. 

 The deodara is from the Himalaya moun- 

 tains. It attains the largest growth, and 

 is perhaps the most exquisitely graceful 

 of all trees. With us its growth appears 

 to be about twice as quick as the common 

 cedar in the same soils. The araucaria 

 is the only hardy timber tree we have of 

 a really tropical character. It is from the 

 Andes, and attains an enormous size. 

 Like pinuses, these trees should be planted 

 out early, when they are from six inches 

 to a foot high. The best way to rear them 

 as single trees in parks, &c., is to trench 

 a pit of five feet in diameter ; to put a 

 triangular fence round them of about four 

 feet high, made of poles, the thinnings of 

 plantations, driven into the loose ground 

 so close one to the other as to prevent 

 sheep browsing the plant, splayed out- 



