THE LIME. 337 
Lime chapter in ‘Trees at home’—of Trees 
which had just passed beyond their sapling stage, 
and entered upon the full glory of their young Tree- 
hood, if this expression may be allowed. But the 
Lime, though it may not compare in stature with 
our finest woodland growths, nevertheless attains 
the dimensions of a noble Tree; for a Lime at 
Moor Park in Hertfordshire has a stem which 
measures, at four feet from the ground, no less than 
twenty-three feet round, and rises to a height of 
a hundred feet from the ground, making a head of 
foliage a hundred and twenty feet in diameter. 
Another Tree at Longleat, having a circumference 
of thirteen feet at the same distance from the 
ground, is a hundred and thirty feet in height. 
The Lime, too, will come into the front rank of 
competitors for the palm of longevity; for there 
are instances on record of its having reached the 
great age of five or six hundred years, whilst the 
age of an enormous Tree, having a circumference 
of thirty-six feet, growing near Fribourg, is said 
to be nearly a thousand years! ‘To all students 
of botany it may be interesting to know that the 
name of the great Linneus was derived from 
