. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 294 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 79. Cedrus libani. ^^ 1. C. libani, Loud. (C. Cedrus, Huth. C. patula, K. Koch. C. effusa, Voss). Cedar of Lebanon. Fig. 79 and Plate XL. Large tree, with wide-spreading horizontal branches, forming a broad head when older, leading shoot nodding: leaves 1 inch or longer, broader than thick, dark or bright green, sometimes bluish or silvery: cones 3-4 inches long, brown. Asia Minor, on the T
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 294 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 79. Cedrus libani. ^^ 1. C. libani, Loud. (C. Cedrus, Huth. C. patula, K. Koch. C. effusa, Voss). Cedar of Lebanon. Fig. 79 and Plate XL. Large tree, with wide-spreading horizontal branches, forming a broad head when older, leading shoot nodding: leaves 1 inch or longer, broader than thick, dark or bright green, sometimes bluish or silvery: cones 3-4 inches long, brown. Asia Minor, on the Taurus and Antitaurus and the Lebanon Moun- tains of Syria.—Introduced to Great Britain probably about 1638. Hardy as far north as southern New York, but a hardier race was introduced in 1904 through the Arnold Arboretum from high altitudes of the Cilician Taurus. This race has proved hardy at the Arnold Arboretum, only in unusually severe winters the trees have been slightly injured, but they 'f^W^^^^^ have always fully recovered ''-p'^-^/^^^-'^ the following summer. The " V" cedar of Lebanon usually grows well under cultivation and thrives in any fairly good soil. It is a beautiful tree of distinct and characteristic appearance which even in cultivation attains considerable dimensions, as many stately old trees in European gardens bear witness. Aside from its ornamental value it is of peculiar interest for its scriptural and historical associations and is well worth planting wherever it will thrive. Var. glauca, Carr. (var. argentea, Veitch). Foliage of blue or nearly silvery-white hue. A geographical variety is var. brevifolia, Hook. f. (C. brevifolia, Henry), from Cyprus, with shorter leaves and smaller cones.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1881, but has proved tenderer than the type. 3. C. Deodara, Loud. (C. libani var. Deodara, Hook. f.). Deodar C. Plate XLI. Tall tree, of pyramidal habit, to 150 feet: leaves 1-2 inches long, dark bluish-green, rigid, as thic
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