THE LINDEN 95 
one of the finest streets in Berlin, are of world-wide 
fame, though not equal to the avenue, a mile and a 
quarter long, at Herrenhausen, near Hanover, planted 
in 1726; but one of the most beautiful of Linden 
avenues is that of Trinity College, Oxford, where the 
bare boughs in winter form a perfect Gothic arcade, 
like the roof-timbers of some cathedral aisle. One 
of the charms of such an avenue is the wreath of 
“ adventitious ” or supernumerary shoots that encircles 
the base of the trunk—a wreath of coral branchlets 
as they sparkle in the faint sunlight of spring, a wreath 
of verdure in summer, and a wreath of gold in autumn. 
There are fine Lindens also at Syon House, Isleworth, 
and at Ken Wood, Hampstead ; but, from its position 
on the brow of a hill, surrounded by scenery of ex- 
quisite loveliness, and from the size of its trees, one 
of the finest avenues in the world must be that at 
Dromana, co. Waterford. 
The sap of the Linden can be fermented into an 
agreeable wine; its wood makes a fine charcoal, and 
is used for musical instruments; while the bark is in 
Germany used in the manufacture of cordage. Apart, 
however, from its beauty, the main uses of the Linden 
are the application of its tough but flexible inner bark 
to the making of Russia matting, and that of its fine- 
grained wood to carving. Its value for the latter pur- 
pose has been supremely demonstrated by the mar- 
vellous work of Grinling Gibbons, whose use of wood 
makes one think of it as a plastic substance, most of 
his carving being in this material. Chatsworth, Trinity 
College, Cambridge, Windsor Castle and the choir 
of St. Paul’s, possess the finest examples of his art. 
