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drooping boughs from the ground to their summits 
eighty or ninety feet in height, so as to present a 
grand columnar aspect. Then, as the poet says— 
“All about the large Lime feathers low— 
The Lime, a summer home of murmurous wings.” 
They may reach five, or even nine, feet in 
diameter, the latter being the size of the famous tree 
that gave the town of Neustadt, in Wiirtemberg, the 
name of “Neustadt an der grossen Linden.” At 
Harste, near Gdttingen, a tree known as the old 
Linden in 1425, measured 274 feet in circumference 
in 1871. The delicate leaves are lop-sided, heart- 
shaped, and gracefully toothed along their margins ; 
the greenish flowers, overflowing with honey and 
sweetly scented, are borne in stalked clusters of from 
three to seven on a curious adherent, leaf-like bract 
which becomes of a buff tint; and the fruits that 
succeed them are small spherical capsules, which but 
rarely, however, ripen in England. 
Of the various forms, the Small-leaved Linden 
(Tilia cordata Mill.) occurs in our woods from York- 
shire southwards, and is also wild in Siberia and 
throughout Europe, with the exception of Turkey 
and Greece. It has smooth, yellowish-brown twigs ; 
its smooth leaves are seldom more than two and a 
half inches across, and are smooth on their under 
surfaces, with the exception of tufts of yellowish hair 
at the forks of the veins; and the capsule is faintly 
marked with ribs when ripe. The Intermediate 
Linden (7. interme'dia DC.), which is the one most 
largely planted, occurs over the same area as the last, 
