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which was exceedingly beaten, and so diluted with water, that it became 

 almost a liquid pap. It was into this that he plunged the roots, covering the 

 surface with the turf: a singular example of removing great trees at such a 

 season, and therefore taken notice of here expressly." This operation was 

 probably performed before midsummer, when the trees, not having spent their 

 vital or growing force for the season, might still send out shoots and fibrous 

 roots, which would preserve them alive till the following year, when they 

 would probably grow freely. If it had not been intended that they should 

 grow a little the first year, the puddle formed with so much care would have 

 been unnecessary. 



Statistics. We have received the dimensions and age of some hundreds 

 of lime trees, with notices of the soil and situation in which they grow, in 

 different parts of Britain and the continent of Europe : from which we shall 

 select but a very few examples, the tree being sufficiently well known. 



Tilia curopie^a in the Environs of London. The oldest tree that we know of is at Fulham Palace. 

 The head of the tree has suffered great injury from time and the weather ; and is not remarkable either 

 for its height or breadth ; but the trunk is between 7 ft. and 8 ft. in diameter. At Kenwood there are 

 trees 90 years planted, which are 90ft. high. At Syon there are trees of T. europse^a, of T. e. micro- 

 ph^lla, and T. e. platyphylla, which are supposed to be about 80 years planted, and are 7.) tt. high. 



Tilia europcE^a South of London. In Kent, at Cobham Hall, there is a tree 97 ft. high, and above 

 9 ft. in diameter, which contains l.'36ft. of timber. At Knowle there is an immense lime tree, the 

 dimensions of which have not been sent us ; but when we saw it, in 18'20, it covered, as we eslimated 

 at the time, nearly a quarter of an acre of ground. The lower branches, which extended to a great 

 length, had rested with their extremities on the soil, rooted into it, and s^ent up a circle of young 

 trees, which surrounded the old or central one. The outer branches of this outer row of trees had, 

 in their turn, stretched out, rested on the ground, and thrown up a second circle of trees, which, at 

 the time we saw them, were from i'Oft. to 30 ft. high. The tree stands on a lawn in an ancient 

 geometrical garden ; and must be at least two centuries old ; the soil is a deej) sandy loam. At Ash. 

 tead, in .Surrey, there are trees 95 ft high, with trunks from 7 fl. to 8 ft. in diameter : the soil is an 

 adhesive loam on chalk. 



Tilia europtE^a North of London. In Berkshire, at Ditton Park, there is a tree which is known to 

 be upwards of 200 years old ; and, though it is only 80 ft. high, yet the diameter of the trunk, at 1 ft. 

 from the ground, is 22 ft. 10 in. ; it grows on strong loam on gravel, and is supplied with abundance 

 of water, from this gravel being on a level with the Thames. In Hertfordshire, at Moor Park, there 

 are several magnificent lime trees, one of which has been beautifully portrayed by Mr. Strutt ; 

 nineteen large branches, 6 ft. or 8 ft in girt, strike out horizontally from 67 ft. to 70 ft. in length, and 

 these support three or four upright limbs ; the tree is in full vigour, and its branches droop down and 

 rest on the ground ; the trunk girts 23 ft 3 in. ; and the head is 122 ft. in diameter ; it is nearly 100 ft. 

 high ; and contains, by actual measurement, 875 ft of timber. In Norfolk, at Merton Park, there is 

 a tree 75 fl. high, which, at 1 ft. from the ground, is about 6 ft in diameter. In Somersetshire, at 

 Brockleby Hall, are three lime trees with trunks from 15 (t to 17 ft in circumference, and 60 ft 

 high. In Staffordshire, at Enville, are some of the finest trees of T. europfe'^a and 71 e. microphylla 

 in England ; they are nearly 100 ft. high, and they are completely feathered to the ground. In War- 

 wickshire, at Crompton, a tree, between 60 ft. and 70 ft high, has a trunk measuring, at 4 ft from the 

 ground, 15 ft. in girt ; from 9 ft. to 12 ft. high the trunk divides into six upright branches, each from 

 50 ft to 60 ft high. In Worcestershire, between Horford and Ombersley, on the edge of a small 

 pool, there is a tree of T. e. microphylla estimated at upwards of 300 years of age; it is 70ft high, 

 and the trunk, at 8 ft. from the ground, 30 ft. in circumference. There are several other trees of the 

 same variety in the neighbourhood estimated to be as old, and nearly as large; at Croome, T. e. 

 platyphylla, 40 years planted, is 70 ft high, with a trunk 2|ft in diameter at 1 ft. from the ground, 

 and the diameter of the .space covered by its branches 70 ft., the soil is a strong red loam. In York, 

 shire, at Bolton, are two lime trees of large size, supposed to be T. e. microphylla, noticed byW hi taker, 

 in his History of Craven, which still exist. In the Park at Thrickleby Hall, there is a lime tree 

 with a branch like a teapot handle, noticed by .Sir J. E. Smith, in his correspondence. 



Tilia europcE'a in Scotland. At Hopeton House, T. e riibra, 100 years planted, is 70 ft high, with a 

 trvink 3^ ft. in diameter at 1 ft. from the ground, and the diameter of the space covered by the branches 

 33 ft, : it stands in an avenue among several others of about the same height. At Gordon Castle, in 

 Aberdeenshire, there are trees above 80 ft. high, and with trunks above 5 ft in diameter at 1 ft. from 

 the ground. In Ayrshire, at Roseneath Castle, there are several trees with trunks 3j ft in diameter, 

 and from 75ft. to 80 ft. high. In Perthshire, at Taymouth Castle, there is a noble avenue of lime 

 trees, which has been 100 years planted, and the trees are 82 ft. high and upwards; and 6 tt., or 

 more, in diameter, at a foot from the ground. In the Perth Nursery there is a tree of the T. e. platy. 

 phylla minor, 60 years jilanted, 66 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk, at 1 ft from the ground, 28 in. ; 

 and that of the space covered by its branches 42 ft. In general, when the soil is properly prepared, 

 the tree grows at the average rate of 2 ft a year, for the first 12 or 15 years, in the milder parts of 

 Scotland. 



'lilia rurop(c'a in Ireland. In the park at Charleville Forest, county of Meath, there is a tree 

 110 ft. high, with a trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, 5| ft. in diameter : it grows in brown loam resting 

 on a limestone gravel, in an open situation. In the plantations on the same estate, the tree attain* 

 the height of from 25 ft to 30 ft in 10 years. At Florence Court there is a tree, 38 years planted, 

 46 ft. high, with a trunk 4 ft. in diameter at 1 ft from the ground, and the diameter of the space 

 covered by the branches 46 It ; the soil a retentive loam. At Moira, near Belfast, T. e. pLityphylla 

 minor has attained the height of 85 ft, with a trunk 4 ft in diameter at 1 tX. from the ground ; the 

 branches covering a space of 60 ft in diameter. 



Ti/ia europie^a in Foreign Countries. \n France, in the Paris Garden, T. e. platyphylla, 120 years 

 planted, is 75 It. high, and the space covered by its branches is 87 ft. in circumference ; at Mereville, 

 T. e. microphylla, 60 years planted, is 60ft high; its trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, is 5ft. in 

 diameter ; and the diameter of the space covered by its branches is 40 ft. ; in the botanic garden at 

 Toulon, T. europa^a, 40 years planted, is 50 ft high, with a trunk 4 ft in diameter; in the pul)lic 

 walks at Nantes, 7". europse^a, 70 years planted, is 80 ft. high, with a trunk 4^ ft m diameter. In 

 Belgium and Holland this species and iti varieties abound: the largest are in " the wood" at the 



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