THE LIME-TREE. 



175 



Phillips describes an enormous Lime standing 

 in the village of Prelly, in the canton of Vand 

 in Switzeriand, under the shade of which the 

 village council formerly held their deliberations. 



One of the finest Lime-trees in England stands 

 in Moor Park^ Hertfordshire, among many others 

 of immense size. The circumference of the 

 trunk is twenty-three feet and a half ; at nine 

 feet from the ground, it sends out nineteen 

 horizontal branches (each of which would make 

 a good sized tree), to a distance of from sixty 

 to seventy feet. It is nearly a hundred feet high. 



A yet more remarkable tree, described by 

 Loudon, growing at Knowle, covers nearly a quar- 

 ter of an acre of ground. The lower branches, 

 which extend to a great length, have rested their 

 extremities on the soil, rooted into it, and sent 

 up a circle of young trees. The outer branches 

 of this outer row of trees have in their turn 

 rooted and thrown up a second row of trees, 

 which were, in 1820, thirty feet high. 



Several American species of Lime have been 

 introduced into England; but none of these re- 

 quire a particular notice. 



