REMARKS ON THE LlME, OH LINDEN TREE. 231 



On January 8th, after filling the pot with light garden mould, and 

 making the surface even and smooth, I sowed the seeds, and thinly 

 covered them with sand ; after which I gave a slight sprinkling of 

 water. I then placed the pot in 60 degrees of moist temperature. 

 When the plants were about an inch high, I potted them off singly 

 into fot ty-eight sized pots ; and as the roots reached the sides of the 

 pots the plants were repotted, entire, into twelves, in a compost of 

 equal parts of sandy loam and leaf-mould. This being done, I had 

 them replaced in the same temperature as before till June. In 

 August they began to bloom, and now (September 10th) are so in 

 profusion ; the plants being about 25 inches high, with numerous 

 branches near half a yard long. 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON THE LIME, OR LINDEN TREE. 



BY t'LOUA. 



" And the lime at dewy eve 



Diffusing odours." Cowper. 



{Continued from page 196.) 



There is a prodigious linden now standing in the village of Prelly, 

 in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland, under whose shade the rural 

 entertainments of these amiable and interesting people are held. 

 Each village of this canton is governed by twelve men, who are chosen 

 to maintain the observance of the laws; and it was beneath the ex- 

 tending branches of this celebrated tree that the municipality of 

 Prelly formerly held their common council, seating themselves on the 

 roots which have elevated themselves above the earth, as it were to 

 form a natural bench for the justice of these simple people. This 

 linden-tree is visited by all who make the tour of Switzerland, and 

 many a traveller exclaims with Langhorne : 



" O let me still with simple nature live, 

 My lowly field flowers on her altar lay, 

 Eujoy the hlessings that she meant to give, 

 And calmly wabte my inoffensive day ! " 



We have already noticed that the linden was one of the papyraceous 

 trees of the ancients. Munting affirms he saw a book made of the 

 inner bark of this tree, which had been written about a thousand 



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