New Principles of Gardening. 
Goodnefs of their dying Bodies are of equal Value for the Fire. 
Tis certain that the Elm makes an excellent Shade, and a beauti- 
ful Tree, but not handfomer than that of the Lime, whofe cu- 
rious natural Shape exceeds all that Art can produce: Witnefs 
thofe noble Trees before Ham-Hou/e, oppofite to the Seat of the 
Honourable fFames Fobnfton’s at Twickenham, Middlefex; and 
thofe in Buby and Hampton-Court Parks, whofe beautitul 
Forms is not Inferior to any growing. 
This Tree is of a very long Duration, and often of a large 
Magnitude. Mr. Evelin, in his Difcourfe on Fore/t-Trees, Chap. 
xxix. Page 82. makes mention of a Lime-Tree, growing at 
Depenham in Norfolk, ten Miles from Norwich, whofe Circum- 
ference at bottom, was fixteen Yards and half, and its perpen- 
dicular Altitude about thirty Yards, which to me appears to 
be more ftranger than Mr. Aradley’s Report of the Oak. How- 
ever, though every Lime does not arrive to. that prodigious 
Magnitude, yet they never fail of a proportionate Size. 
The Nature of this Tree is to grow taper and ftreight ; 
to conftantly keep its pyramental Form, to have Plenty of Leaves, 
whereby it makes a good Shade; to preferve its felf by its tough 
Bark from the violent Winds ; to produce good Quantity of Roots, 
from which the Head is plentifully fuppited; to fend forth fla- 
grant Flowers or Bloffoms in the Spring ; produces Branches, 
whofe Wood is of a Beautiful red gloily Colour ; foon heals 
over its Wounds by a Knife, &c. and therefore is preferved from 
the wet, fo that ’tis very feldom they gow hollow; its Wood ts 
of great Service in Carving, and is a very fweet kind of Fuel. 
In the pruning of their Roots, obferve that you cut away all 
their fmall woolly Fibrous Roots; for they are prefently dead 
after taking up ; and befides they hinder the Earth from getting 
to the principal Roots: But for their Heads, ’tis beft to leave 
them on, pruning offall Side or Horizontal Branches clote to the 
Body of the Tree, without leaving on Side-Snags as is com- 
mon. 
Tlie Seed of this beautiful Tree is ripe in Odfober ; at which 
time ic muft be gather’d, and ina fine dry Day if poflible ; af- 
ter which lay it to dry in an open Room ; for the Space of {ix 
feven Days, and then 1t being very dry, put it into Sand as was 
directed for the Afben-Keys, and in the middle of February fol- 
lowing, muft be fown in the Seed-Bed, which would be beft 1 
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