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added to the spirits of lavender, and they formed the aqua fiorum 

 tilicB of the last age. The berries, reduced to powder, were used in 

 dysenteries, and the bleeding at the nose. Hoffman speaks in high 

 terms of the infusion of the flowers in water, after the manner of tea, 

 by which he says he has known an inveterate epilepsy perfectly 

 cured. 



Notwithstanding the rules of fashion, we shall always be glad to 

 meet the linden tree in our summer walks or rides, whether it spring 

 from the hedge-row, the enclosed park, the open street, or from the 

 boundary of the shrubbery, where we hope the sight of it will remind 

 the young orator of the elocpience of him whose works we have 

 already noticed are preserved on its bark. 



In humbler situations we would have this tree give the artist 

 emulation to excel the hitherto unsurpassed Gibbons. 



So great was the honour thought of planting a linden tree on the 

 Continent, during the confederacy, that as soon as one party had 

 made themselves masters of a village, they planted a linden in the 

 public place, destroying those which their adversaries had set, and 

 which was again hewed and another planted as often as victory 

 decided in favour of a fresh party. 



The finest linden trees are those that are raised from seed, which 

 should be sown in the autumn, as soon as they are ripe, and covered 

 with mould about three quarters of an inch deep. They are also 

 propagated by layers, which in one year will make a good root: 

 these should be laid down and transplanted about Michaelmas. The 

 linden is also increased by cuttings ; but the tree seldom forms so 

 fine a cone-like shape when propagated by either of the latter 

 methods as when raised from seed. 



ARTICLE IV. 



REMARKS ON THE MAGNOLIA. 



BY FLOKA. 



1 " Columbus shew'd 



The western world to man. ; ' 



The discovery of America may be considered one of the most im- 

 portant events that has been recorded. It has discovered to us an 

 immense territory of land ; a people whose habits and minds were 



