THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 493 
(the Robust deodar), are only varieties of the common deo- 
dar — the former being of a slenderer habit, and more vivid 
green, and the latter much coarser and stouter. As these two 
varieties are out with us for the first time this winter, we can 
not as yet say how hardy they may prove, and we have no 
returns from any other place. 
We may as well, perhaps, add here, that Mr. Meehan 
reports, near Philadelphia, “ all Deodars on wet low soils are 
uninjured, while those on dry are killed outright.” This is 
the contrary of our theory and experience here certainly, 
but facts are better than arguments, and time alone will show 
whether a damp or dry soil is most congenial to this plant. 
C. Lebani (Cedar of Lebanon.) — This is another variety of 
Syri ' the genus Cedrus , so distinct and remarkable 
Pinus cedrus. that we regret being compelled to say it has 
Cedrus Phoenicia. a | gQ f a p en 0 f w hat was expected and 
hoped of it ; and we doubt, if, with a few exceptions, there are 
more specimens now in this country, or much larger, than 
■when Mr. Downing wrote his first edition. After the specimen 
at Throgg’s Neck (Mr. Ashe’s), the next best we know of is at 
Woodlawn (Mr. Field’s), at Princeton, N. J., where a specimen 
(Fig. 38) planted in 1842 is now thirty-six feet high, bearing 
cones, and may be considered beyond all risk ; and also some 
trees at Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia, planted by 
Mr. J. J. Smith, the founder of that most lovely and interesting 
of rural cemeteries. 
These trees were only slightly browned in the severe winters 
of 1855-6. But Mr. Field’s soil is a light sandy loam, and 
that of Laurel Hill, a gravel or disentegrated rock, lying high 
above the surface of the Schuylkill, and so protected by trees 
as to allow even the Gordonia pubescens to flourish to the 
height of forty feet, strewing the ground in September with its 
fragrant blossoms. In both these cases, as in our own, the soil 
has been dry, and the tree not stimulated by a damp, rich 
position ; and although the winter of 1855-6 reduced, with us, 
a tree of fifteen feet to eight, yet other specimens, a little less 
exposed to the full influence of the morning sun, suffered 
simply a little browning of the leaves, and have since gone 
through an ordinary winter without any injury, leading us to 
