. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 444 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. it usually wears a sorry look, the lower branches dead or dying. Only in quite favourable places, such as at Dropmore, Maidenhead, will the tree attain a great height and touch the ground with its prickly branches. Once it gets out of health it is almost impossible to restore its vigour. How often is this tree recommended for small forecourt gardens, but it is better to have no tree at all than this Araucaria Arborvitoe, Chinese.âSee Thuja orientals. Biota OPiOilta
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. 444 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. it usually wears a sorry look, the lower branches dead or dying. Only in quite favourable places, such as at Dropmore, Maidenhead, will the tree attain a great height and touch the ground with its prickly branches. Once it gets out of health it is almost impossible to restore its vigour. How often is this tree recommended for small forecourt gardens, but it is better to have no tree at all than this Araucaria Arborvitoe, Chinese.âSee Thuja orientals. Biota OPiOiltalis.â See Thuja orientalis. Cedars.âSee Cedrus. CedrUS atlantiea.âThis is a near relative of the Cedar of Lebanon, from which it differs principally in being of looser growth, while, as a rale, the foliage is more glaucous, and in some this silvery blue tint is very pronounced. The variety Glauca (the Silver Atlas Cedar) is of great beauty, being in its best forms of quite a silvery colour, and the tree g ro w s vigor- ously and rapidly. It is one of the best of all the g 1 a u c o u s f o 1 i a g e d Conifers. C. Daodara {the Deodar).â This is Hima- layan, an d remarkable for its extreme grace and elegance, though some forms have this character more p r o n o u n c e d than others. The Deodar is now frequently met with, and it succeeds in the neighbour- hood of London better than many other Conifers. In its Indian home it is a valuable timber tree, but here is prin- cipally grown for its high o r n a m e ntal qualities. It must be remem- bered that it is not as hardy as one would like, and in the last severe winter was considerably cut up. There are several varieties. C. Libani.âThe Cedar of Lebanon is well known, at least by name, to almost everyone, and noble trees are freely scattered throughout the country. As a rule its massive trunk divides into several branches a short way from the ground, the whole forming usually a flattened tree, built up, as it were, of numero
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