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CEDAR (Lat. cedrus, Gr. iapos) , a name applied to several members of the natural order Coniferae. The word has been derived from the Arabic Kedr, worth or value, or from Kedrat, strong, and has been supposed by some to have taken its origin from the brook Kedron, in Judaea. Cedrus Libani, the far-famed Cedar
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Vitruvius ;"cedars " were growing in Crete, Africa and Syria. Pliny says that their wood
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The genus Cedrus contains two other species closely allied to C. LibanCedrus Deodara, the deodar, or " god tree " of the Himalayas, and Cedrus atlantica, of the Atlas range, North Africa., The deodar forms forests on the mountains of Afghanistan, North Beluchistan and the north-west Himalayas, flourishing in all the higher mountains from Nepal up to Kashmir, at an elevation
glaucous , sometimes of a silvery whiteness, and the cones smaller than in the other two forms; its wood also is hard, and more rapid in growth than is that of the ordinary cedar. It is found at an altitude above the sea of from 4000 to 6000 ft.The name cedar is applied to a variety of trees, including species of several genera of Conifers, Juniperus, Thuja, Libocedrus and Cupressus. Thuja gigantea of western North America is known in the United States as White (or Yellow) cedar, and the same name is applied to Cupressus Lawsoniana, the Port Orford or Oregon cedar, a native of the north-west States, and one of the most valuable juniper trees of North America. The Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) and the red or American cedar (J. virginiana) are both much used in joinery and in the manufacture of pencils; though other woods are now superseding them for pencil-making. The Japanese cedar ( Cryptomeria
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See Gordon's Pinetum; Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, Histoire du cedre du Liban (Paris, 1838) ; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, vol. iv. pp. 2404-2432 (London, 1839) ; Marquis de Chambray, Traite pratique des arbres resineux coniferes (Paris, 1845) ; J. D. Hooker, Nat. Hist. Review (January, 1862), pp. 11-18; Brandis, Forest Flora of North-west and Central India, pp. 516-525 (London, 1874) ; Veitch, Manual
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