538 STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ARBORICULTURE IN HAMPSHIRE. 
THE SMALL-LEAVED Lime (7'%ilia parvifolia). 
Though this is said to be a native, it is rare in the county, and the 
only specimens I have found are in Hursley Park, where, in the 
pleasure grounds, is a very handsome specimen, with a circumference 
of 17 ft. 9 in.; and to the north of the ice-house are other two, 
the largest girthing 16 ft.5 in. They are singularly picturesque, 
having in growth more the drooping habit of the birch; soil, clay, 
on the chalk. 
Tae Lime. 
This elegant tree has been more selected for forming avenues 
in this county than any other tree, and many of them are very 
fine; some of them singularly beautiful. 
The lime-tree avenue at Brambridge House (Sir Thomas Fair- 
bairn), down the valley of the Itchen from Winchester, is the 
finest in the county. It consists of four rows of trees, 
running from the front of the house towards the south-east, 
thus forming three distinct avenues. The main or centre 
one has a width, from tree to tree, of 132 ft., or exactly two 
chains ; the two side ones have a width of 24 ft. at the north, 
and 27 ft. at the south end—just one yard of difference. The 
number of trees in each row is fifty-nine, and the whole length is 
a quarter of a mile; the girth of the southmost tree in the west 
row is 9 ft. 54 in., and there are few, if any, larger. They have 
evidently been pollarded up to some distant date, say seventy 
years ago. This treatment, and the width of the centre avenue, 
have encouraged them to throw out wide-spreading branches, thus 
forming a magnificent vista. 
At Grove Place, Nursling, once a hunting seat for Queen Eliza- 
beth, when following the chase in the ‘“ New Forest,” is one 
similar to the one at Brambridge, but the trees have a greater 
length of trunk, and do not throw out their branches so much, 
showing that they have never been pollarded. Grove Place, after 
being occupied as a private asylum, came into the hands of the 
late Lord Palmerston, who restored it at great expense. The 
avenue has a south-westerly direction from the house, and there 
are more trees on the east side, so as to extend it to the public 
road, which has a bend at this point. The length is about 260 
yards, or about half the length of the Brambridge one. The 
width of the centre one is 100 ft., and the two side ones 20 ft., 
and the distance from tree to tree in the row is also 20 ft. The 
