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and tough. It is much used for the panels of carriages 

 and wagons and the sounding-boards of pianos. It is 

 the best wood for carving. 



" Smooth Linden best obeys 

 The carver's chisel ; best his curious work 

 Displays in nicest touches." 



Most of the famous carvings at Windsor Castle, Chats- 

 worth House, St. Paul's, were made in linden wood. 



Linden leaves and flowers. 



It makes an excellent charcoal. Its inner bark is used, 

 to some extent, in the manufacture of coarse ropes. It 

 was from the long fibres of this bark that the tree 

 received its name — line tree, or linden. 



The handsomest street of Berlin, Unter den Linden, 

 was so called from its double row of these trees. 



In Freiburg there still stands a very ancient linden sup- 

 ported by stone pillars. Through its hollow trunk grows 

 a younger tree, presumably a scion of the older one. 



