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great reluctance we feel constrained to admit it is not to be de- 
pended upon. It is certainly the most delusive of all evergreens. 
We have upon this place raised specimens twelve to fifteen feet 
high, as perfect as could be, but which the winters of 1855-6 
severely injured, and the subsequent winter finished to the snow- 
line. These trees are now about eight or nine feet high, with 
several leaders, and nearly fifty feet in circumference, mostly 
holding their color well so far this winter, though having been 
subjected to a temperature, for two days, of 15° below zero. 
The fault of the tree (if so charming a tree can have any 
fault) is its habit, like the Cryptomeria and Taxodium sem- 
pervirens, and many other of the new evergreens, of making a 
late autumnal growth without ripening off its wood. 
The fact that the tree below the snow-line almost always 
appears fresh and green, proves, we think, quite satisfactorily, 
that some protection, and no or little sun, will go far towards 
establishing its hardihood. A wood, or the north side ot 
buildings, will accomplish this ; and if to this, we add such a 
preparation of soil as will retard rather than stimulate the tree, 
so that by accomplishing an early growth it may ripen off its 
wood, we think we may again hope to acclimatize the 
Deodar, which as now grown in the Middle States, hardly 
amounts to more than a bush, annually increasing in amplitude, 
but not in height. There are portions of this country, in the 
neighborhood of Washington possibly, and in Southern Vir- 
ginia, and about that latitude, and as far south as Augusta, 
Ga., where it succeeds admirably. In the extreme south it 
suffers from the sun in summer as much as it does here from 
the sun in winter. There are, however, specimens at Mr. 
Affleck’s, near Natchez, twenty -five to thirty feet high, and fea- 
thering to the ground. At Flushing, L. I., in Ohio, in New Jer- 
sey, and near New York, it does best in some shelter ; though at 
“ Woodlawn,” near Princeton, a specimen, ten feet high, and 
thirty-three in circumference, stands well in the most exposed 
situations. When first imported, it was supposed to be hardier 
than the Cedar of Lebanon, but subsequent experience does 
not confirm this — at least in our case. 
C. deodar a viridis (the Green deodar), C. deodar a robusta 
