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a most pleasant shadow, under and within whose boughes 

 may be made brave summer-houses and banketting arbors/' 

 And lastly, the just eulogium of Evelyn, when he says, " Is 

 there a more ravishing or delightful object, than to behold 

 some entire streets and whole towns planted with linden- 

 trees, in even lines before their doors, so as that they seem 

 like cities in a wood ? This is extremely fresh, and pleasant to 

 the eye, of admirable effect against the epilepsy, for which 

 the delicately-scented blossoms are held prevalent, and screen 

 the houses both from wind, and sun, and dust, than which 

 there be nothing more desirable, where streets are much 

 frequented " 



Thus has my tribe been justly eulogized from one 

 generation to another, said a noble lime-tree, whose waving 

 branches swept the walls of an old baronial mansion Moor 

 Park in Herefordshire. 



I have seen one generation after another occupy the old 

 house ; the young bride and bridegroom, in their youth and 

 beauty, passing across the threshold with music and at- 



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