THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 491 
B. orientalis gracilis . — This variety;, which we have received 
under the latter name, JYepalensis, is perfectly hardy 
Syn. and muc h more slender and graceful than the 
b. Nepaiensis. common Qhinese. It is found in Nepaul and 
Northern India. We consider it one of the most interesting of 
the arbor vitae. 
B . Tartarica (Tartarian arbor vitae). — -A dense conical bush 
Syn. growing ten feet high, a native of Tartary ; quite 
b. pyramidaiis. distinctive. Our specimen, eight feet high, has 
always proved perfectly hardy. 
We are inclined to believe that this variety may be often 
confounded with and sold for what is called the Siberian arbor 
vitae, and the place of its origin would seem to justify this ; but 
we do not find, in all our authorities or in any of the English 
or French catalogues, any mention of the Siberian arbor vitae, 
except as a synonym of T. occidentalis (the American arbor 
vitae), which, w'hat is known in this country as Siberian, cer- 
tainly is not. It is also associated with Warreana, though the 
latter came from Nootka Sound, and would seem to be identi- 
cal with Don’s plicata. 
Cedrus. The Cedar. 
C. Atlantica (the Mount Atlas cedar), or better known in 
S yn% this country as the Silver cedar of Lebanon, is only 
C. argentea. a variety of the ordinary Cedar of Lebanon with 
glaucous leaves. It is not impossible, however, but what it 
may be in certain localities hardier, since it thrives perfectly at 
Newport, when the common Cedar of Lebanon is cut down and 
not unfrequently killed. This is also the report from Flush- 
ing. 
As all the remarks, we propose to make about the Cedar of 
Lebanon, apply to this tree, we shall refer our readers to the 
succeeding pages. 
C. deodar a (the Deodar or Indian Cedar). — The anticipations 
Syn. formed of this most graceful evergreen in the 
Pmus deodara. fl rs t edition of this book, we truly regret to say, 
have not been generally fulfilled. It grows so readily and so 
rapidly, particularly in the later autumn months, that it is with 
