Tilia i<^79 



Tiha petiolaris is a beautiful weeping tree, which has not been nearly so generally 

 planted as it deserves to be. There are good examples in the Botanic Gardens at 

 Kew, Cambridge," and Glasnevin. At Stowe, near Buckingham, there is a hand- 

 some tree, 74 ft. by 6 ft, 8 in. There are two fine trees, girthing 7 ft. 4 in. and 5 ft. 

 7 in., and about 80 ft. high, growing on the bank of the Thames near Cliveden on 

 the Wharfe Estate, belonging to Lord B6ston. A very similar one on the lawn at 

 Barton, Suffolk, was measured by Henry as 83 ft. by 8 ft. 2 in, in 1908. Another at 

 Chiswick House, which has the trunk decayed on one side, measured T] ft. by 10^ ft. 

 in 1903, At Bicton a handsome tree, near the house, grafted at seven feet from the 

 ground, measured 80 ft. by 5^ ft. in 1906. At Hatherop Castle there is a beautiful 

 specimen of moderate size on the lawn (Plate 374), which has layered naturally ; and 

 many plants have been propagated from it also by artificial layers. At Gunnersbury 

 House there is a good tree, which in 191 2 measured 56 feet high by 6 ft. in girth at 4 ft. 

 from the ground. At Aldenham there is a tree on the lawn which ripened fruit in 191 1 

 from which I raised seedlings. I noticed many dead bees ^ under it on August 20. 



In Scotland it appears to be perfectly hardy at Durris ; and Henry found, in 

 1905, a tree at Bargaly, 41 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in. 



Mr. Bean^ saw a fine specimen at Herrenhausen, in Hanover, which was 9 ft. 

 2 in, in girth in 1908, (H. J. E.) 



TILIA MONGOLICA 



Tilia mongolica, Maximowicz, in M^L Biol. x. 585 (1880), and Enum. PI. Mongol. 118, t. 11 

 (1889)5 L. Henry, in Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 476, figs. 214, 215, 217; Rehder, in Sargent, Trees 

 and Shrubs, i. 121, t. 61 (1903). 



A small tree, scarcely exceeding 30 ft. in height, and flowering when only a few 

 feet high. Young branchlets glabrous, reddish, becoming grey in the second year. 

 Leaves (Plate 407, Fig. 7) about 2\ in. wide, acuminate at the apex, with one or 

 two sharp-pointed lateral lobes ; base truncate or cordate ; coarsely serrate, with a 

 few large triangular teeth, tipped with long callous points ; upper surface dark green, 

 shining, glabrous ; lower surface glaucous, with pubescent tufts in the axils at the 

 base and at the junctions of the primary and secondary nerves, elsewhere glabrous ; 

 petiole glabrous. 



Flowers, six to twelve in a cyme ; bract stalked ; sepals erect, villous within, 

 glabrous without ; petals erect, longer than the sepals ; staminodes five, obtuse ; 

 stamens, as long as the sepals, thirty-five to forty, in five bundles ; style glabrous. 

 Fruit ovoid, mucronulate, without ribs or only slightly ribbed, thick-walled, shortly 



tomentose. 



This species is very distinct in appearance, the small coarsely serrate leaves 

 resembling those of a birch, and opening with a reddish tint in spring, 



1 In 1908, the bodies of innumerable bees, poisoned by the flowers of a tree of T. petiolaris at Tortworth, had so much 

 manured the ground under its outer branches, that a very green ring of turf was visible in the autumn foUowmg, and was 

 noticed by the Earl of Ducie to be even more conspicuous in 1909. ^ ^<^ ^"■^'- '9°^' P- 392- 



