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den-tree groweth in some woods in North- 

 amptonshire ; also neere Colchester, and in 

 many places along the highway leading from 

 London to Heningham in the county of Essex. 

 The male linden-tree groweth in my Lord 

 Treasurer's garden in the Strand, and in 

 sundry other places, as at Barnelmes, and 

 in a garden at Sainte Katharine's, neere 

 London." 



Parkinson says, in 1640, " the female lin- 

 den-tree is planted in many places in our 

 land, chiefly for the large sweet shadow it 

 maketh ; the others are very great strangers 

 in this land, scarce to be seen any where." 



Evelyn complains, and says, " it is a shame- 

 ful negligence that we are not better pro- 

 vided of nurseries of a tree so choice and 

 universally acceptable." He tells us, that 

 " the young trees were then sent for from 

 Flanders and Holland, to our great cost, al- 

 though they were to be found in some of our 

 woods/' 



Excepting the torrid zone there is no part 

 of the globe whose timber-trees do not thrive 

 in this country as well as in their native soiL 

 The famous linden-tree of the duchy of Wir- 

 temberg, which gave to the city of Neustatdthe 

 name of Neustatd-Ander grossen Linden (the 

 City of the great Linden), although it was of 



