Linden or Basswood. 



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ony in three days. There is i-arely a year that it does not 

 give us some of its incomparable nectar. It has been esti- 



FiG. 172. 



Basswood, 



mated tliat one linden tree would furnish, in a favorable 

 year, fifty pounds of honey. The tree, too, from its great 



