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covered. In Norway it grows wild in lat. 70 ° , about as far North 

 as the sorbus and the trembling poplar. 



We cannot grow the Tamarisk as a tree as in the gardens of 

 the Tuilleries, in Paris, but as a shrub, cut back each Fall, grown 

 in some corner where the snow is apt to cover it, there should be 

 no trouble in the culture of this beautiful plant. 



TILIA— Linden or Basswood. 



The Linden is a very favorite street and park tree in central 

 and northern Europe. It has long been a favorite, and hence we 

 find avenues of grand patriarchal trees which have be the 

 pride of generations. At Verrieres there is an avenue planced by 

 by the late M. de Vilmorin, trimmed inside in the form of a high 

 narrow Gothic arch, with transept, a prolonged Westminster 

 Abbey.. 



T. EuROPAEA. — The linden of western Europe is hardy in 

 Montreal, but its leaf is so fine and thin that it is sensitive to 

 drought, and even in England its foliage is apt to wilt in dry 

 weather. It is a favorite street tree on the Massachusetts coast, 

 yet should not be planted largely in drier regions. ,v 



T. EuROPAEA var parvifolia. — As we proceed eastward this 

 becomes the favorite, and finally, in middle and eastern Russia, 

 the only Tilia. The first specimen we noticed was at Reutlin- 

 gen, in Wurtemburg, a largish tree with leaf no larger than an 

 English shilling. It was growing very slowly, the foliage is al- 

 ways larger. At Salzburg, in Austria, the grand old lindens, 

 centuries old, trees 4 or 5 feet in diameter of trunk, were all par- 

 vifolias. At St. Petersburbg the finest street trees are lindens, 

 and I believe most of them parvifolias. Here the ordinary Euro- 

 paea is known as the tilia of Holland. At Moscow parvifolia is 

 represented in the Botanic Gardens by a tree with a straight trunk 

 over four feet in diameter. In Kazan we are told that the trade in 

 basswood bark from that region is all from this parvifolia variety. 

 Russian foresters view the enormous consumption of basswood 

 bark much as thinking men do here our export hemlock bark 



