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Updated: June 17, 2025
The deodar is of very slow growth; and this unfits it for being introduced into European countries except as an ornamental timber for parks and pleasure grounds. It was chiefly on account of its property of being easily split into planks, or pieces of light scantling, that the deodar was selected for making the sides of the ladders.
But Simla is also a gateway to many things to the mighty deodar forests that clothe the foot-hills of the mountains, to Kulu, to the eternal snows, to the old, old bridle way that leads up to the Shipki Pass and the mysteries of Tibet and to the strange things told in this story.
He further increased his revenues by selling timber to the railway-companies; for he would cut the great deodar trees in his one forest, and they fell thundering into the Sutlej river and were swept down to the plains three hundred miles away and became railway-ties.
'I shall be better in a moment, Madeline said, and he answered, 'Of course'; but they walked on and said nothing more until the road ran out from under the last deodar and round the first bare boulder that marked the beginning of the Ladies' Mile.
And as she obeyed, with the swift instinct of fear, Desmond's voice reached him through the rush of the rain. "Look out for yourself, Lenox! She's safe enough." But before the words were out, the upper half of a great deodar crashed down upon the narrow path, and a long branch struck the Galloway's shoulder with tremendous force.
As the deodar could be split with wedges, it was just the timber wanted under these circumstances. While engaged in "prospecting" among the deodar trees, a pine of another species came under the observation of our adventurers. It was that known as the "cheel."
Above the sal belt come several species of tropical evergreen trees, among the stems and branches of which great creepers entangle themselves in fantastic figures. From 5000 to 10,000 feet, several species of evergreen oaks abound. Above 6000 feet are to be seen the rhododendron, the deodar and other hill cypresses, and the beautiful horse-chestnut.
But alas they are as whited sepulchres. It is only from a distance that they are picturesque. They are typical abodes of the hill folk. From the Pathargarhi pass the path makes a steep descent down a well-wooded mountain-side to the Deodar stream.
Vellacott took the budget addressed to him, and walked away to where an iron table and some chairs stood in the shade of a deodar. In a few minutes he looked still more put out. He had learnt of the disturbances in Paris, and was reading a rather panic-stricken letter from Mr. Bodery.
On my way back to the boat, I turned aside to visit the Jumma Musjid, or chief Mosque, a large quadrangular wooden building, the roof of which is supported by deodar columns of great height, each pillar being cut out of a single tree, but I cannot waste more time over it, the name recalls to my memory the magnificent Jumma Musjid of Delhi but comparisons are odious.
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