LINDEN 
was due tu the lime-trees that covered its sides and crowned 
its summit. We read that in obedience to Amphion’s music, 
The Linden broke her ranks and rent 
The woodbine wreaths that bound her, 
And down the middle, buzz! she went 
With all her bees around her. 
Homer, Horace, Virgil, and Pliny mention the lime-tree 
and celebrate its virtues. As Ovid tells the old story of 
Baucis and Philemon, she was changed into a linden and he 
into an oak when the time came for them both to die. 
Herodotus says: “ The Scythian diviners take also the leaf 
of the lime-tree, which, dividing into three parts, they twine 
round their fingers; they then unbind it and exercise the 
art to which they pretend.” 
It is interesting to recall that Linneus, the great botanist, 
derived his name from a linden tree. His father belonged to 
a race of peasants who had Christian names only, but hav- 
ing by his personal efforts raised himself to the position of 
pastor of the village in which he lived, he followed an old 
Swedish custom, common in such cases, of adopting a sur- 
name. 
A very beautiful linden tree stood near his home, and be- 
ing something of a botanist himself he chose Linné, the 
Swedish for linden, and called himself Nils Linné or Nicholas 
Linden. When his famous son Carl became professor of bot- 
any at the University of Upsala, his name Linné was lat- 
inized into Linnzus, as we know it to-day. But when the king 
of Spain conferred upon him a patent of nobility it was given 
to him as Count von Linné or Count of the Linden tree. 
Like the Magnolia the Linden belongs to an ancient and 
northern race. TZv/éa appears in the tertiary formations of 
Grinnell Land in 82° north latitude, and in Spitzbergen. Sa- 
porta believed that he found there the common ancestor of 
the lindens of Europe and America. 
All the lindens may be propagated by cuttings and graft- 
ing as well as by seed. They grow rapidly in a rich soil, but 
are subject to the attacks of many insect enemies, 
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