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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
next ten years many young trees were raised here from seeds- 
Favourably impressed by the rapidity of growth of these seed- 
lings, the government, fearing a coming shortage of Oak for naval 
purposes, imported and distributed large numbers of Deodar 
seeds, and high estimates were formed of the future value of 
these trees. But in framing these estimates one important 
factor was omitted — the uncertainty of the British climate, with 
its rapid changes, “ evei'ything by turns, and nothing long.” A 
score or two of years served to demonstrate that such conditions 
were opposed to the longevity and uniform development that 
produced sound timber on the Indian mountains ; and to-day 
the Deodar is not mentioned among the trees that are to bring 
