EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
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It cannot be considered hardy north of Philadelphia, although 
there are a few fine specimens near the city of New York. It will 
probably become a grand tree in the upper table lands and moun- 
tains of the southern States. 
There is a new variety recently brought out in England with 
slenderer and more pendulous branches, and named botanically the 
C. 1. pendiila. 
The Deodar Cedar, Cedriis deodora^ belongs to the same 
family as the Cedar of Lebanon, and has many of the same 
characteristics at maturity, but when young is far more graceful in 
its branching and spray. It resembles the hemlock in its branching, 
but its foliage is not so soft to the touch, nor so pleasing in color, 
being a bluish or grayish green. Those who have seen it in its 
native localities on the mountains of northern Hindostan, describe 
it as a tree of colossal dimensions, uniting gracefulness and 
grandeur beyond all other evergreens. It is found in the same 
regions where the Bhotan pine is indigenous, near latitude 30° 
north, at elevations from six to twelve thousand feet above the sea. 
It has been pretty well tried in this country, and has not proved hardy 
in the northern States. Sargent mentions that its habit of making 
a late autumnal growth, makes it peculiarly liable to injury in 
winter, and that it is quite unreliable. He believed they would do 
best on the northerly side of hills or other protection from too much 
sun, and in soils that are deep, poor, and dry ; while Mr. Meehan, 
of Philadelphia, reports that all deodars on wet low soils are 
uninjured, while those on dry are killed outright. It is not unlikely 
that specimens may be made to grow to large size as far north as 
Lake Ontario, but such successes will probably be exceptional. 
Trees which never attain large size may, if but half-hardy, be pro- 
tected at every age, but those which are planted for their ultimate 
greatness should be of sorts that will not be endangered by extremes 
of heat or cold after they become too large to protect. The deodar 
when young is not so beautiful as the hemlock. We need not there- 
fore feel sad over our failure to domesticate it. 
The Silvery Deodar Cedar. C. d. argentea . — This is a 
variegated variety of extraordinary beauty, of which we have only 
