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The lime is an elegant tree, where it is 

 fuffered to grow at large: but we generally 

 fee it in a ftrait bondage, clipped into hape, 

 and forming the fides of avenues, and viftas. 

 But in it's beft ftate it is not very interefting. It 

 has a uniformity of furface, without any of 

 thofe breaks, and hollows, which the mod 

 picturefque trees prefent ; and which give 

 their foliage fo much beauty. One circum- 

 ftance however mould recommend the lime 

 to all lovers of the imitative arts. No wood is 

 fo eafily formed under the carver's chifTel. It 

 is the wood, which the ingenious Gibbon ufed, 

 after making trial of feveral kinds, as the 

 moft proper for that curious fculpture, which 

 adorns fome of the old houfes of our nobility. 



The maple is an uncommon tree, tho a 

 common bum. It's wood is of little value j 

 and it is therefore rarely fuffered to increafe. 

 We feldom fee it employed in any nobler fer- 

 vice, than in filling up it's part in a hedge, 

 in company with thorns, and briars, and other 

 ditch trumpery. Yet the ancients held it in 



great 



