402 JOUKNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Endl. Conif. 137. P. Cedrus y atlantica^ Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 2, 408. 



Habitat. — North Africa, on the highest mountains in Algeria, and 

 particularly on the Atlas, near Tairet, and on the Aures Moinitains at 

 an elevation of 3,250-4,000 feet and more ; in thick forests, on the 

 Pic of Tangour, together with some Cedrus Lihani ; and on the Tabor 

 and Tababor Mountains. 



Introduced into Europe in 1842. 



A noble tree, like the Cedar of Lebanon, growing from 80 to 

 100 feet high, with horizontal branches and a tabular-shaped head 

 when old, but somewhat pyramidal and open in the head when young. 



C. atlantica may be met with in Denmark, aged about tAventy-five 

 years, and about 25 feet in height. The glaucous varieties seem to be 

 fully as hardy as the species. 



C. a. cinerescens. A most beautiful variety. 



C. Deodara, Loud. Arbor. Brit. iv. 2428, f. 2283-86, and Encycl. 

 of Trees, 1059, f. 1975-77 ; Pinet. Wob. 149, t. 48, 49 ; Link in 

 Linnsea, xv. 538 ; Spach, Hist. Nat.Veg. Plian.xi. 430 ; Hoffm. inBot. 

 Zeit. 1846, 185 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 42; Carr. Tr. Gen. des Conif. 281; 

 Gord. Pinet. 40, and Suppl. 19 ; Henk. and Hochst. Syn. 141 ; 

 Beissn. Nadelh. 305. Finus Deodara, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Or. iii. 651. Abies 

 Deodara, Lindl. in Penny Cycl. 1833, 9 ; Lindl. and Gord. in Journ. 

 Hort. Soc. V. 214. 0. indica, De Chambr. Tr. Prat, des Arb. Re'sin. 

 341. C. Libmii, Barr. var. Deodara, Hook. fil. Himal. Journ. i. 257, 

 and in Nat. Hist. Rev. 1861, ii. t. 1-3. 



Habitat , — The Himalayan Mountains, in a continuous forest from 

 Afghanistan (about 34" N.) to Nepaul, from longitude 68° to 85° E., 

 at various elevations from 6,500 to 13,000 feet. 



Introduced into Great Britain in 1831, by the Hon. V/. Leslie 

 Melville, and produced its cones for the first time in Europe in 1858, 

 at Bicton, Devonshire, the residence of the Lady Rolle. 



In the Himalayas the Deodar occupies a great vertical belt or range, 

 flourishing from about 5,500 to 12,000 feet of elevation, mixed up for 

 the first 1,500 feet with Finns longifolia, while for the last 3,000 

 or 4,000 feet it accompanies Ficea Morinda and Abies Findrow. 

 It is found on all the higher mountains from Nepaul up to Cashmere ; 

 and Dr. Grifiith describes it as occurring in vast forests and of great 

 size towards Kafiristan, where it is called " Nokhtur," and flourishes 

 at an elevation of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. But to see 

 the Deodar in its greatest perfection, one must visit the snowy ranges 

 and lofty mountains of the interior, far from the influence of the 

 plains, and where for nearly half the year it is enveloped in snow ; 

 there its dimensions become gigantic. In Lower Kamaon there is an 

 extensive forest of very fine trees from 20 to 27 feet in girth, and 

 Major Madden records one tree which in 1830 measured 36^ feet 

 in circumference fully 5 feet from the ground ; and on a subsequent 



