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At Cassiobury Park, Herts, there is a lime avenue supposed to have been planted 

 by Le Notre, but some of the trees, which are very inferior to the rest in height and 

 symmetry, are smothered in dense masses of small spray at 20 ft. to 30 ft. from the 

 ground, and seem to have been planted later, possibly to replace dead trees in the 

 original avenue. This avenue is 24 yards wide and the trees 8 yards apart. The 

 best of the trees are 120 ft. to 130 ft. high, and one measures 13^ ft. in girth. There 

 is a fine avenue, about half a mile long, at Denham Court, near Uxbridge. 



At Braxted Park, Essex, the property of C. H, Du Cane, Esq., there is a lime 

 avenue composed of three rows of trees on each side, which shows extraordinary 

 variation in the growth of the trees, giving it a very irregular appearance. The 

 tallest at the bottom of the hill are about 1 20 ft. high, and covered to an extent I have 

 never seen elsewhere, with mistletoe growing in large bushes nearly up to their tops. 

 At the top of the hill near the entrance gate, many of the trees are poor and stunted, 

 with masses of spray at their root and higher up, and with gouty swellings on their 

 branches which may be due to the mistletoe. 



At Betchford Park, Surrey, there is a remarkable avenue of very old trees, some 

 of which, when seen by Henry in 1906, were 130 ft. in height and 12 ft. to 13^^ ft. in 

 girth. This avenue was described as a very fine one by Dr. Aikin^ in 1798. 



At Doneraile Court, in Ireland, there is a fine avenue, one tree measuring 98 ft. 

 by 10 ft. in 1907 ; most of the trees were covered with masses of spray. 



An excellent article by Alfred Rehder of the Arnold Arboretum, on the lime 

 as an avenue tree, in Mailer's Deutsche Gartner Zeitung, 1904, p. 188, should be 

 consulted by those who think of planting. After giving the distinctive charac- 

 ters of the species, and describing their peculiarities of growth, he says that the 

 choice must depend on the character of the soil and climate, and considers that 

 the large-leaved lime, T. platyphyllos, is the best where the ground is deep and 

 moist and where rapid growth and heavy shade are required. For drier soil he prefers 

 T. cordata, which does not, however, make such a large or fine tree. T. vulgaris is 

 in most of its characters intermediate, and this is the lime which is most generally used 

 in England, though according to Rehder most, if not all, of the limes celebrated for 

 their size and age in Germany are T. platyphyllos. He thinks that T. euchlora, 

 Koch, is the best for town planting, because its smooth leaves do not hold the dust 

 so much as those of other species, and because its leaves do not fall so early. He 

 prefers T. petiolaris, the pendulous silver lime, for park avenues, and for single 

 specimens where its branches can show their full beauty. Rehder does not give any 

 observations as to the relative advantage of trees propagated from seed, from layers, 

 or from grafts ; but he rightly says that it is important that all the trees should be 

 propagated from the same variety. 



Remarkable Trees 



Among the most remarkable limes that I have seen is a walk at Ashridge Park. 

 These trees are individually much larger than those at Burghley or Stratton, and 



1 In Monthly Magazine for 1798, quoted in Card. Chron. 1841, p. 4. 

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