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equinoctial gales set in from the stormy quarter, the former being 

 struck fairly, is never injured ; whereas the latter, which is caught in 

 the eddy formed by the sheltering clump, loses every year some 

 part of its top ; so that I shall be forced to replace it by a Beech, an 

 Oak, or some other tree of tougher texture. It is almost unnecessary 

 to add, tliat although the soil is nearly equal in both situations, the 

 tree protected by the clump shoots at least one-third part more in the 

 year than its less sheltered neighbour. 



Note X. Page 845. 



The Lime is placed in the class Polyandria monogi/nia, and is thus 

 described by an accurate botanist — Tilia EuropcBa, floribus nectaris des- 

 titutis,foliis cordatis, ramificationibus venarum suUus villosis. — Smith, 

 Flor. Britan., t. ii. p. o7l ; which description Professor Martyn also 

 adopts. The varieties are no fewer than five in number. Three other 

 American species are mentioned, of which the Bunwood, or broad ■ 

 leaved sort, as eulogised by Dr Yule, seems most deserving of cultiva- 

 tion in this climate. 



Note XI. Page 846. 



The Lime in Germany, Switzerland, and other European countries, 

 rises to immense magnitude. Evelyn has recorded the dimensions of 

 several, such as the celebrated Tilia of Zurich, the Linden of Schalouse, 

 (forming a bower in which three hundred persons could sit,) and above 

 all, the prodigious Tilia of Neustadt, in the duchy of Wiirtemberg, 

 from which that city was designated Neustadt an den grossen Linden. 

 The circumference of this last was twenty-seven feet four fingers. 

 Princes and nobles did honour to the tree, by surrounding it with 

 columns, obelisks, and monuments of different kinds, to support its 

 wide-spreading arms ; and they inscribed on them their names and 

 arms, with the dates of the erections. Coxe, in his travels in Switzer- 

 land, mentions one at Morat, ninety feet high, and at least thirty-six 

 feet round. It was lopped in 1550, and is now, or was lately standing. 



Miller mentions having measured some Limes in England that girted 

 ten yards, at two feet from the ground. Sir Thomas Brown sent to 

 Evelyn an account of a great one growing in his time at Depeham in 

 Norfolk, that was thirty yards high, sixteen in girth, at a foot and a 

 half from the ground ; and at the smallest part of the trunk, six feet 

 from the ground, eight yards and a half. After these we need not 

 specify any that are to be found in Scotland, although in deep soils 

 there they come to great timber. — See Evelyn's Silva, vol. ii. p. 196. 



