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The Lime TREE. 
TILIA: 
Tree common enough in Parks and Gardens, 
and when in Flower very beautiful and fra- 
grant; the Trunk is thick, and the Branches 
grow with a tolerable Regularity. The Leaves 
are fhort, broad, of a Figure approaching to round, 
but terminating in a Point, and ferrated about the 
Edges. The Flowers grow on long yellowifh 
Stalks, with a yellow, oblong, and narrow Leaf 
upon them. ‘They are themfelves alfo of a yel- 
lowith white Colour, and extremely delicate and 
fweet Smell. The Fruit is roundifh and fmall. 
The Flowers are the only Part ufed, they are good 
againft Giddinefs of the Head, Tremblings of the 
Limbs, and all the other lighter nervous Difor- 
ders. They are beft taken as Tea. - é 
The Lrquip AMBER TREE. 
LIQUID AMBAR. 
a AVery beautiful Tree of the American Iflands, 
which we have brought of late into ovr Gar- 
dens ; it grows fifty Feet high, and the Branches 
are numerous and difpofed with a tolerable rig 
larity. The Leaves are large and very beautiful, 
they are broad and are divided much in the Man- 
ner of the Leaves of our Maple Tree, but much ~ 
‘More beautifully, they are of a glofly Green, and 
_ the Tips of the Boughs have a fragrant Smell. 
The Flowers are greenifh and fmall; the Fruit 
Bar ae the Bignefs of a fmall Walnut, roundifh 
and rough upon the Surface, with feveral Seeds — 
within. 
Eck We ufe a Refin in which runs from the Trunk | 
= of this Tree in great Heats. It is of a redifh Co- 
