138 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
the glue-pot would not have to come into requisition so 
often to glue together some of the parts in our furniture. 
It is very hard to transplant unless removed wholly 
or carefully root-pruned in the nursery. This tree has 
quite a variety of names; some of them are as follows: 
Gum-tree, yellow gum-tree, sour gum-tree, pepperidge- 
tree, wild pear-tree, etc. The berries of this tree are 
small, blue-colored, and afford myriads of robins their 
daily sustenance. It sometimes attains a height of fifty 
or sixty feet, and is found only in moist or damp places. 
It is used in Virginia to make mauls, and in ship-building. 
THE WILD LIME-TREE, 
This tree closely resembles its brother, the black gum- 
tree, except in its fruit, which is larger, its wood softer, 
and it has a stone that is deeply grooved on both sides; 
its fruit is intensely acrid. It attains a height of seventy 
or eighty feet, with a diameter of four or five feet at the 
surface of the earth, and at about six or seven feet a 
diameter of thirty to forty inches. When the leaves 
first unfold themselves in the spring they are downy, 
but as they gradually spread out they become smooth 
on both sides. ‘The wood is extremely white and rea- 
sonably soft when unseasoned, but very light and hard 
when dry; and, as it possesses the same beautiful grain 
as the other members of this species, it is made into 
bowls, platters, trays, etc. The roots when seasoned are 
so light that they take the place of cork, and are much 
used by the fishermen to buoy up their nets. Its fruit 
is esteemed a delicacy, and is sold under the name of the 
Ogeechee lime, for the purpose of preserving in sugar, 
which, when properly prepared, is said to possess a most 
delicate and delicious flavor. 
