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finest trees fall before their time for this reason, — six 

 of the largest and finest European lindens in Essex 

 county. They varied from just over eight feet to ten 

 feet in circumference as high as one could reach to 

 measure them above the ground. Full of years, these 

 lindens resemble the English elms in general appearance. 

 Both of our foreign lindens or limes are noted for the 

 delicious fragrance of their flowers — a feature lacking 

 in the American tree, which, in many other respects, 

 is their superior with its larger and brighter green 

 leaves. 



I am told that the flowers of the American linden 

 growing before the house of Mr. T. D. Williams are 

 decidedly fragrant. As a rule the European lindens 

 are the only ones of which the fragrance of the flowers 

 would attract the attention of persons passing beneath 

 the trees in the street, a fragrance which sometimes is 

 almost overpowering. 



The question of fragrance is an interesting one, and 

 its extent, and in some cases its total absence, is unac- 

 countable. In our rose gardens among the so-called 

 hardy hybrid-perpetual roses, there may be two plants 

 growing side by side of very similar appearing varieties, 

 and derived, perhaps, from closely related original 

 stock ; yet one rose will be deliciously fragrant while its 

 neighbor will possess no trace of fragrance whatever. 

 Individual variation must account in many cases for 

 fragrance, color and other characters of plants. 



The "Unter den Linden" in Berlin has made the tree 

 whose name it bears famous all over the world. Not 

 daring to trust the guide books for information regarding 

 it, and never having seen the street, I referred to a 

 friend high in authority on the subject, but my ideal that 



