THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. 95 



of the ground ; the bark of the Larch being ai- 

 med incorruptible. 



Befides the great value and ufefulnefs of Larch 

 timber, the tree poffeffes other properties. Tur- 

 pentine is extraded from it ; its bark makes a 

 good tan j and its wood forms an excellent, laft- 

 ing fuel. 



THE LIME. 

 (Tilia Europcea.) 



The Lime is a well known, large growing, de- 

 ciduous tree, of great beauty and fragrance when 

 in flower. It is generally accounted a native of 

 England. It is very ornamental, in all its varie- 

 ties ; more efpecially the red-twigged Lime. The 

 lime is to be found as a ftandard, or as an avenue 

 tree, about moil refidences of note in the king- 

 dom. It is feldom planted in the grove ; but of- 

 ten as a fcreen, in fingle or double rows. The 

 Lime is capable of affording a very complete fhel- 

 ter, and a moft agreeable made ; and perhaps no 

 tree is better adapted to the formation of an ave- 

 nue, or a walk, near a refidence. Indeed, it has 

 been preferred for thefe purpofes, by common 

 eonfent, for more than a hundred years back. * Ic 



is 



* An avenue may be made too broad to have a good ef. 

 f*ct :- That is to say, it may lie made so spacious as effec- 

 tually 



