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and wholsome, and in a short time yields sufficient 

 quantity to brew with ; so as with one bushel of malt, 

 is made as good ale as four bushels with ordinary 

 water, upon Dr. Tongue's experience, Transact, vol. 

 iv. f. 917. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Of the Lime-Tree. 



i . Tilia the lime-tree, or [linden] is of two kinds ; 

 the male (which some allow to be but a finer sort of 

 elm) or maple rather, is harder, fuller of knots, and 

 of a redder colour ; but producing neither flower, nor 

 seed, (so constantly and so mature with us) as does 

 the female, whose blossom is also very odoriferous, 

 perfuming the air, the leaf larger ; the wood is like- 

 wise thicker, of small pith, and not obnoxious to 

 the worm ; so as it seems Theophrastus de PL 1. 3. 

 c. I o. said true, that though they were of both sexes, 

 $ta<t>tpov(Ti Si rp m>P<Pv T 9 oXy, &c. yet they totally differ d 

 as to their form. We send commonly for this tree 

 into Flanders and Holland, (which indeed grow not 

 so naturally wild with us) to our excessive cost, whiles 

 our own woods do in some places spontaneously pro- 

 duce them, and though of somewhat a smaller leaf, 

 yet altogether as good, apt to be civiliz'd, and made 

 more florid : From thence I have received many of 

 their berries ; so as it is a shameful negligence, that 

 we are no better provided of nurseries, of a tree so 

 choice, and universally acceptable : For so they may 

 be rais'd either of the seeds in October, or (with 



