CHAPTER XIII. 



LIME OK LINDEN-TREE. 



Tilia Europcea. 



" The stately lime, smooth, gentle, straight, and fair, 

 "With which no other dryad can compare, 

 With verdant locks and fragrant blossoms deckt, 

 Doth a large, even, odorate shade project." 



Cowley, 



HEAR you not what the poet sang concerning me, mind- 

 ful of my stateliness and sylvan beauty, my fragrant 

 blossoms and pleasant shade? Hear, also, one of your 

 oldest botanists. The lime, or linden-tree, saith Gerard, 

 "waxeth very grate, and thicke, spreading forth his 

 branches wide and far abroad, being a tree which yeeldeth 



