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Brown street is a good place to study the lindens, 

 or lime trees as they are often called. There are 

 two good American lindens (Tilia america) in front 

 of Mr Geo. H. Perkins' house. No. 26; a tree of 

 the European linden (Tilia vulgaris) at the Snell 

 house, No. 17 ; and trees of the broad-leaved, or 

 Dutch linden (Tilia pjatyphylla) at Mr. A. B. Eus- 

 sell's, No. 18, and near the St. Peter's chapel door. 

 The last named species may be distinguished from 

 the others by the woolly leaves and young wood. 



There is a very fine specimen of the European linden 

 in front of Mr. D. A. Varney's, 31 Pleasant street, 

 and two in the enclosure of Mrs. John Bertram's 

 residence, on either side of the door, on Ffideral 

 street. American lindens are growing by Mr. T. D. 

 Williams' house on Essex street, and near the estate 

 No. 1 on the western side of BufTum street. In fact, 

 all three species are found throughout the city. "The 

 Lindens" of Mr. Francis Peabody's estate in Dan- 

 vers are, if I remember correctly, the European linden 

 proper, and doubtless the finest in this region. It is 

 recorded that these trees were imported from Eu- 

 rope, apparently with great care, packed in separate 

 "sheets," by Mr. Robert Hooper, "King Hooper" 

 as he was called, undoubtedly in 1770, when he built 

 the residence which has so fortunately been preserved 

 in all its architectural beauty. The trees are, there- 

 fore more than one hundred and twenty years old, 

 an age which their appearance bears out when the 

 unusually favorable conditions under which they have 

 grown is considered. 



There were removed in Beverly a few years ago, 

 to make way for improvements, — too many of our 



