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established in popular favour to need any recommendation. There is a. 

 form possessing the pendulous apices characteristic of the Deodar, which 

 makes its new growth in the spring fully a fortnight before the type. 

 This new growth is of a most beautiful emerald green. At this stage of 

 growth this variety is very distinct from the type, although in winter they 

 are not easily distinguishable. I do not think that this variety is a. 

 recognised " Garden tree," as I have only seen one specimen; it seems 

 more probable that it was merely a chance seedling which has shown 

 a variation from the type. C. L. pcndula prcecox would be a good 

 descriptive name. 



The finest grove of Cedar of Lebanon which I have ever seen is on 

 the lawn fronting Highclere Castle, near Newbury, in the watershed of 

 the river Kennet. As an example of how well this tree will do within 

 the smoke-fog area I need only cite the splendid specimen which stands 

 in Kew Gardens right against the Brentford Gas Works. 



C. atlantica is, from a distance, only distinguishable from the 

 Deodar by its sub-erect and rigid branches. It grows faster than any 

 other Cedar, and some judges prefer it to any other. It yet remains to- 

 be seen if it is of such permanent merit as to warrant this good opinion ; 

 for the tree may not prove so long-lived as its relations, and possibly 

 when fully grown heavy snow may break down the boughs. The avenue- 

 at Kew promises great things, and is already a feature of the gardens. 

 The variety glauca is a splendid garden tree in a small state. 



C. Deodara, the sacred Cedar of the Himalayas, is, in my opinion, 

 only second to the Cedar of Lebanon in beauty and utility. It has all 

 the stubborn hardihood of the Yew tree, and even after our most perish- 

 ing easterly gales, when all vegetation looks withered and brown, the 

 Deodar shows not the slightest trace cf repining, nor after the hardest, 

 frosts. 



The peacock is especially partial to the Decdar. Although he may 

 have been reared in England, and perhaps his ancestors for generations, 

 and neither he nor they have ever seen a Deodar, yet, if he be turned into 

 a park containing a single Deodar, he will infallibly be found roosting in. 

 it the very first night. 



There are strong inducements of a physical nature which account for 

 this seemingly remarkable rapprochement. The Deodar and the peacock 

 have grown up together in their ancestral home for more years than any 

 of us would care to count, and the tree forms an ideal roosting place for- 

 the bird. To what extent, if at all, interdependence exists I am unaware. 



In a young state the Deodar is somewhat glaucous, and I have 

 recently had my attention called to some young trees of a markedly 

 glaucous character. If, as I hope in this case, such glaucous foliage 

 remains (at least in part) as a fixed characteristic, we shall have a garden 

 tree of great beauty and novelty. In this variety the young wood is 

 white on the top side of every branch — a character shown off to great 

 effect by the drooping branchlets. 



Several other varieties are known in gardens. The semi-decurrent 

 form, C, Deodara robusta, is unrivalled as a garden tree for growing on 

 a lawn near the house. This variety is slightly glaucous at all times. 



The Deodar does well at Kew, and the fine avenue of these trees, as 



