SOME OTHER TREES 



from a single stem which is attached for part 

 of its length to a curious long green bract. If 

 these flowers came naked on the tree, as do 

 those of the Norway maple, for instance, they 

 would be easily seen and admired of men, but 

 being withheld until the splendid heart-shaped 

 foliage is well out, the blooms miss the casual 

 eye. But the bees see them; they know the 

 linden for their own, and great stores of 

 sweetest honey follow a year when abundant 

 pasture of these flowers is available. 



A kindly tree is this linden, or lime, or 

 basswood, to give it all its common names. 

 Kindly as well as stately, but never rugged as 

 the oak, or of obvious pliant strength as the 

 hickory. The old tree invites to shade under 



Flowers of the American linden 

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