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LIME, or LINDEN TREE.— TILIA. 



Natural order, Columniferce. Tiliacece, Juss. 

 A genus of the Polyandria Monogynia class. 



" And the lime at dewy eve 



Diffusing odours." Cowper. 



Fashion reigns over the toilet not with 

 more arbitrary power than she governs the 

 plantation. She even enters the forest, declar- 

 ing war against and levelling to the earth all 

 such as are not in favour with her court ; and as 

 Caprice generally holds the situation of prime 

 minister to this tyrannical goddess, it is not 

 surprising that Folly should so often be em- 

 ployed as first marshal. Reason, who is 

 deemed a traitor by this government, finds 

 his opposition too weak to oppose such a 

 phalanx, and sees the lofty tree and the lowly 

 shrub alike rooted from our native woods, 

 their antiquity and utility no more availing 

 themselves, than their beauty or singula- 

 rity influences the whimsical disposition of 

 Fashion, who is thought to be a spurious 

 daughter of Taste* In vain did the lime fill 



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