62 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



of remaining in the \yater without rotting.. 

 The Greeks made bottles of the middle bark 

 of the linden, which were lined with pitch to 

 prevent leakage. 



It is said that no wood chars better than 

 this for the purpose of gunpowder. It is also 

 turned into bowls and dishes, and little pill- 

 boxes were made of it before those of paper 

 were invented. 



The flowers were formerly held in esteem 

 by the apothecaries, being accounted cephalic 

 and nervine, and good for the apoplexy, epi- 

 lepsy, and palpitation of the heart, &c. They 

 were sometimes added to the spirits of la- 

 vender, and they formed the aqua florum 

 tilicB of the last age. The berries, reduced 

 to powder, were used in dysenteries, and the 

 bleeding at the nose. Hoffman speaks in 

 high terms of the infusion of the flowers in 

 water after the manner of tea, by which he 

 says he has known an inveterate epilepsy 

 perfectly cured. 



Notwithstanding the rules of fashion, we 

 shall always be glad to meet the linden-tree 

 in our summer walks or rides, whether it 

 spring from the hedge-row, the enclosed park, 

 the open street, or form the boundary of the 

 shrubbery, where we hope the sight of it will 



