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The Bun wood, a broad-leayed lime, {Tilia americana,) 

 is from North America, and is justly recommended by 

 Dr Yule for cultivation in this country. It rises to eighty 

 feet in height ; and from the breadth of the leaves, and 

 the elegance of its pendulous flowers, would prove ex- 

 tremely ornamental to our lawns. The abundance of 

 this stately species near the Lakes Ontario and Erie, 

 gives sufficient earnest of its hardy character, while it 

 diminishes in frequency as you proceed southwards.'''' 



There are few forest trees that make a richer appear- 

 ance on the lawn than the Lime, and none that merits to 

 be more assiduously cultivated in our parks. When 

 avenues were in fashion in England, this tree was a 

 greater favourite than it is at present. But its smooth 

 and upright stem, its head of elliptic form, its flowers the 

 delight of bees, its ample and floating foliage, all conspire 

 to render it an object of uncommon dignity and beauty. 

 Gilpin, with his usual fastidiousness, thinks it too formal 

 and uniform in its outHne. To my eye it possesses a 

 character at once graceful and magnificent : — 



" Stat Philyra; liaud omnes formosior altera surgit 

 Inter Hamadryadas; mollissima, Candida^ Igevis, 

 Et viridante com^, et beneolenti flore superba, 

 Spargit adoratam late atque sequaliter umbram." 



CoNLEius, Lib. vi. 



Although it loses its leaves earlier in the autumn than 

 some other trees, the red-twigged (which should always 

 be preferred) in some measure compensates for that 

 defect by the beautiful colour of its spray throughout the 

 winter. For single and scattered trees the Lime is 

 particularly fitted, from the excellence of its shade as well 

 as the toughness of its branches, which last are very 



* Mem. Caledon. Hort. Soc. vol. ii. p. 393. Note XL 



