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planting, althoiigli both tlieir roots and fibres had been 

 exposed to a frosty atmosphere, with httle covering, for 

 weeks together. This property affords great facihties to 

 the planter in executing designs of any magnitude, where 

 it is impossible to bestow an equal degree of attention 

 upon every object. 



The Horse-Chestnut has no fault but one, and that is 

 brittleness, which renders it obnoxious to the winds, and 

 is often the cause of the branches being defaced by them. 

 The fact is noticed by Evelyn ; but he does not add, 

 because, perhaps, he was not aware, that it is by eddy 

 winds only that material injury is done, and such as do 

 not hit the tree fairly."^ This affords a useful lesson to 

 the transplanter in the disposition of his trees of that 

 species ; but the great boast of the Horse-Chestnut, and 

 what makes it so delightful in this climate, is its early 

 leaf, and the turgid richness of its opening buds in the 

 spring, long before the foliation takes place, and when 

 there is little else to cheer the eye in the shape of verdure. 



THE LIME. 



Of the Lime or Linden tree, {Tilia,) which is indige- 

 nous to Britain, botanists now make but one species, the 

 Tilia europcea. All the rest, which are numerous, are 

 set down as varieties. The two principal are the red and 

 the green-twigged, of which the former is by far the more 

 beautiful, and more deserving of cultivation. f Both kinds, 

 when raised from the seed, will grow to the height of 

 seventy or eighty feet or more ; but they are deteriorated 

 like all other trees by the practice of raising them from 

 layers. The family of Linnaeus, the father of botany, is 

 said to have had its name from this tree. 



* Note IX. 



t Note X. 



