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it, we cannot but think it better worth our early attention? 
and extensive introduction, than almost any other foreign 
tree. Evergreens are comparatively difficult to import, and 
as we have made the experiment of importing Cedars of 
Lebanon from the English nurseries with but indilferent 
success, we would advise that persons attempting its cultiva- 
tion, should procure the cones containing the seeds from 
England, when they may be reared directly in our own soil, 
which will of course be an additional advantage to the future 
growth of the tree.* 
The situations found to be most favourable to this Cedar, 
in the parks and gardens of Europe, are sandy or gravelly 
soils, either with a moist subsoil underneath, or in the 
neighbourhood of springs, or bodies of water. In such places 
it is found to advance with a rapidity equal to the Larch, 
one of the fastest growing timber trees, as we have already 
noticed. 
The Deodara, or Indian Cedar, ( Cedrus Deodar a,) is a 
magnificent species of this tree, recently introduced from 
the high mountains of Nepal and Indo-Tartary. It stands 
the climate of Scotland, and appears likely to succeed here 
wherever the Cedar of Lebanon will flourish. In its native 
country it is described as being a lofty and majestic tree, 
frequently attaining the height of 150 feet, with a trunk 30 
feet in circumference. The leaves are larger than those of 
the Cedar of Lebanon, of a deeper bluish green, covered 
with a silvery bloom ; the cones, borne in pairs, are of a 
reddish brown colour, and are both longer and broader than 
those of the latter species. In some parts of upper India it 
* The finest Cedar of Lebanon in the Union, is growing in the grounds of T. 
Ash, Esq., of Westchester Co., N. Y., being 50 feet high and of corresponding 
breadth. It stands near a Purple-leaved Beech, equally large and beautiful. 
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