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PARK AND CEME-TERY 
Garden Plants — THeir 
Ccdrus, “the true cedars,” have three species, or 
forms, according to Sir J. D. Hooker, who visited 
manv of their natural stations of growth in the Hima- 
Garden and Forest. 
CEDRUS LIBANI, NEAR MOUNT LEBANON. 
layas, Syria and North Africa. A short-leaved, small- 
coned form is found in a restricted station on the 
mountains of Cyprus. Years ago, too, a gentleman 
who directed a survey through the Euphrates valley 
assured me “cedars” were growing along the snowy 
passes of the mountains between Teheran and the Per- 
sian Gulf, but I cannot find any verification. C. Deo- 
dara, “The tree of God” of the Hindoos, stretches 
over eighteen or more degrees of longitude in the 
Himalayan regions, or from the mountains of S. E. 
Assam to those bordering upon N. Beluchistan and 
Afghanistan northward to beyond Cashmere, where it 
occurs in a belt whose elevation varies from 4,000 to 
10,000 feet. At the southeast parts of the range the 
humidity and rainfall is much greater, and the eleva- 
tions vary from 6,000 to 13,000 feet or thereabouts. 
Pinus longifolia accompanies the cedars in the lower 
zones. I fancy most of the cones introduced by H. M. 
Commissioners of Woods and Forests and others were 
obtained from the southern, eastern and central parts 
of the range, but it might be well to try them from 
Afghanistan, for it is in the interior and northern 
parts of these immense mountains (which form a se- 
ries of back fences to India some three or four miles 
high) with snow lying upon them for five months of 
winter, that the Deodars upon comparatively bare 
rocks attain their greatest size of 20 to 35 feet girth 
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at 3 feet from the ground, and a height of 150 feet or 
more. The best timber is produced on the northern 
slopes where the thin soil is a detritus of clay — slate, 
gneiss or granite. Here the boles reach up to 50 or 80 
feet without a branch, probably growing more slowly 
than on a richer soil, but producing a wood which 
is redder, more solid and enduring. This northern 
snowy range of the trees would lead us to expect their 
hardihood over much of the United States, where, 
however, such as we have are not hardy, for the 
growing seasons of the regions are quite different. On 
the Eastern Himalayas the cloudiness and rains are 
incessant from April — or especially from June to Sep- 
tember, during which periods falls of from 80 to 200 
inches or more are not uncommon. During October 
the rains diminish, and from November to March 
there is fine, dry, clear weather, with maybe i or 2 
inches of rain per month to none at all. This ripens 
the growth perfectly. On the lowlands of the south- 
ern states the rainfall is much less and quite different 
in distribution, with a distinct tendency to produce 
two growing seasons, the best of which is apt to be 
the autumn one. The growth remains soft until over- 
taken by a zero norther, which kills even 30 foot trees. 
I have a photo of a Deodar of that size killed in Geor- 
gia in just such a way. But the tree is so graceful and 
beautiful when young through nearly all the region 
Gardening. 
PSEUDOLARIX KAEMPFERI IN A LONG ISLAND GARDEN. 
from Washington southward that it should always be 
given a place, especially where it can be grouped. 
There are fair specimens in the Washington parks. 
At Philadelphia, where the late Robert Buist had the 
