8. 
THE LIME. 
Tika Europea. 
PuatE 1, Fie. 8. 
FENG } C :N a previous chapter we have dis- 
=y i cussed some of the prominent 
characteristics of this delightful 
Tree. Here we shall give, for 
those whose interest may per- 
haps have been excited by our 
reference to one of the most beautiful of 
the inhabitants of wood, park, and garden, 
such details of its life, history, and pecu- 
liarities as may not lie within the knowledge 
even of those to whom the form of Tilia europea 
is like that of a familiar friend. It was ‘a study - 
of young Limes’ which formed the subject of the 
