ARBORETUM NOTES. 67 
TILTACE A: 
TILIA ALBA 
Loudon, v. 1. 372. 
One at Barton, planted on the lawn by my 
father, has grown into a very beautiful tree, 
high, with drooping branches, of which the 
lowest rest on the ground all around; it forms a 
luxuriant dome of foliage, of a parabolic outline, 
like that of a vigorous Horse-chesnut ; especially 
beautiful when the wind tosses its large silvery 
backed leaves, showing by turns their green upper 
and white under sides, and giving to the whole 
mass of foliage a peculiar sparkling appearance. 
It flowers in great profusion about the middle of 
July, later, usually; in this very hot and dry 
summer of 1868, it flowered in the middle of July; 
in 1867, it was in the same state in the middle of 
August. A little later than the common Lime tree. 
Its blossoms have a peculiarly strong and sweet 
honey like scent, more powerful than that of the 
common Lime, though perhaps less delicate, and 
they are especially in favour with the bees. When 
one stands near the tree in its full flowering 
season, the ‘‘ murmur of innumerable bees’”’ is as 
if one were in the midst of many hives. 
This White Lime, Henry* tells me, is abundant 
on the Balkan mountains (the ancient Haemus). 
It seems not to extend westward into Germany ; 
at least, it is not included in Koch's Synopsis. It 
* His brother, Henry Bunbury. 
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Tilia alba 
