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of the finest of the genus, and likely to prove a great 

 acquisition as an ornamental tree. In America it attains 

 a magnitude equal to that of the largest of our European 

 Limes, and there is little doubt but that in England, if 

 judiciously treated, it will reach a size little if at all 

 inferior ; several trees though yet quite young, have al- 

 ready attained a height of fifty feet ; one is mentioned by 

 Loudon, growing at White Knights, near Reading, as up- 

 wards of sixty feet high, the tufting of whose foliage, he 

 observes, has, at a distance, a striking and singular ap- 

 pearance. In America it is found in Canada, and the 

 northern parts of the United States ; but in Virginia, 

 Georgia, and the Carolinas, is only met with in the Alle- 

 ghany mountains. Like its European type, it affects a rich, 

 loose, and deep soil, in which it rises to above eighty feet 

 in height, with a straight uniform trunk frequently upwards 

 of four feet in diameter, and bearing an ample and tufted 

 summit. 



The leaves are very large, obliquely heart-shaped at the 

 base, abruptly and acutely pointed at the end, finely 

 toothed, of a deep green and glabrous above, paler beneath. 



The flowers appear in America in June and July, but 

 later in England ; they are large, the petals with each a 

 scale at the base, pendulous, with a long narrow floral leaf, 

 and odoriferous. 



The wood is very white, soft, and easily worked ; it 

 is used in America for the panels of carriages, seats of 

 chairs, &c. The inner bark, like that of its congener, 

 Til. Europaa, is made into ropes and matting. Seve- 

 ral other American Limes, considered by some as dis- 

 tinct species, but by Loudon as varieties of this tree, have 

 been introduced ; amongst these, the T. Amer. lieteropliylla, 

 (White Lime of Michaux,) appears to be well deserving 



