19G REMARKS ON THE LIME, OR LINDEN TREE. 



Dr. Turner tells us, in 1568, " it groweth very plenteously in Essekes, 

 in aparke within two mile from Colicliester, in the possession of one 

 Master Bogges ; it is also very common in high Germany." Gerard 

 observes, in 1591, " that the female linden-tree groweth in some 

 woods in Northamptonshire ; also neerc Colchester, and in many 

 places along the highway leading from London to Heningham in the 

 county of Essex. The male linden-tree groweth in my Lord Trea- 

 surer's garden in the Strand, and in sundry other places, as at 

 Barnelmes, and in a gardain at Sainte Katharine's, neere London.'' 



Parkinson says, in 1640, " the female linden-tree is planted in 

 many places in our land, chiefly for the large sweet shadow it 

 maketh ; the others are very great strangers in this land, scarce to be 

 seen any where." 



Evelyn complains, and says, " it is a shameful negligence that we 

 are not better provided of nurseries of a tree so choice and universally 

 acceptable." He tells us, that " the young trees were then sent for 

 from Flanders and Holland, to our great cost, although they were to 

 be found in some of our woods." 



Excepting the torrid zone there is no part of the globe whose 

 timber-trees do not thrive in this country as well as in their native 

 soil. The famous linden-tree of the duchy of Wirtemberg, which 

 gave to the city of Neustadt the name of Neustatd-Ander grossen 

 Linden (the city of the great Linden), although it was of prodigious 

 height and nine feet in diameter, is not to be compared to one in this 

 country, which grew at Depenam, in Norfolk, ten miles from Nor- 

 wich, which measured near the ground forty-eight feet in circumfe- 

 rence, or sixteen feet diameter ; and at some distance higher it girthed 

 thirty-six feet, and in the least part of the trunk it measured twenty- 

 five and a half feet, and was to the uppermost branch, ninety feet in 

 height. (The measurement of this tree was sent to Evelyn by Sir 

 Thomas Brown, of Norwich.) 



Switzerland is celebrated by Evelyn for its enormous linden-trees, 

 many of which remain sacred to this day. He particularises the 

 famous linden at Zurich ; as also one at Schalouse, under which was 

 a bower composed of its branches, capable of containing 300 persons 

 sitting at ease, and so thick was the foliage that the sun never pene- 

 trated. 



[ To be continued.] 



