. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. because verylittle has been written about it by disin-terested persons ; besides, it is an elegant tree,which, though not twenty years old in thiskingdom, is in great repute, and cannot betoo largely cultivated. THE DEODAR. Cedrus deodara. The deodar, holy cedar, or Himalayancedar, is known to us only as an ornamentalplant of exquisitely beautiful outline andgraceful spray, giving an air of refinement toevery lawn and shrubbery to which it hasbeen admitted ; but in its native haunts it isa magnificent tree, of ra
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. because verylittle has been written about it by disin-terested persons ; besides, it is an elegant tree,which, though not twenty years old in thiskingdom, is in great repute, and cannot betoo largely cultivated. THE DEODAR. Cedrus deodara. The deodar, holy cedar, or Himalayancedar, is known to us only as an ornamentalplant of exquisitely beautiful outline andgraceful spray, giving an air of refinement toevery lawn and shrubbery to which it hasbeen admitted ; but in its native haunts it isa magnificent tree, of rapid growth and enor- HH 466 THE FOREST TllEES OF liRITAIN. mous size, with the evergreen beauty of theeedar of Lebanon when living, and afford-ing, when cut down, timber not simply dura-ble, but imperishable. No wonder, then, thatthe untaught Hindoos should look on it with reverence, giving it a name expressive of thisfeeling, the gift of God, and in some dis-tricts using its fragrant wood as a materialfor their temples, and burning it as incenseon occasions of great The leaves and cones are very like thoseof the cedar of Lebanon; but the generalhabit of the two trees is different in everystage of their growth. When young, thedeodar resembles a luxuriant larch with aleafy base, but the branches are more delicate,and thickly clothed with foliage, and the ex-tremities of all the shoots, even the leader,droop most gracefully. What will be the ap-pearance of the full-grown tree in this cli-mate it is impossible to conjecture. If it suc-ceeds, which it gives every prospect of doing,it will prove one of the most valuable addi-tions that has ever been made to the trees ofBritain, both for the sake of its picturesquebeauty and its timber. In its native state, the deodar grows highup on the slopes of the Himalayan chain,attaining an enormous size and hanging thesides of the mountains with a perennial coatof verdure. It is not unusual to see it infavourable situations with a g
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