The Lime. 



you Lave left in tlie ground ; so tbat^ at about three cut- 

 tings, either of the two latter will have given you about 

 forty thousand poles on the acre, while the Larch will have 

 given you only 9680 poles 5 and, to obtain these, you must 

 grub the ground, trench a second time, and make a new 

 plantation of Larches. The trees are pretty, and they make 

 good timber when they are large. They are ornamental, 

 but they yield to many other trees even in that respect; 

 and, as poles, it can never be profitable to plant them, 

 especially when the Birch, the Ash, and the Locust, and 

 particularly the first and the last of these, will thrive any- 

 where where the Larch will thrive ; and though the Birch 

 does not make a good pole, it makes many other things of 

 as great and more general utility. 



In Latin, Tilia ; in French, Tillcul. 



314, The botanical characters are : — The tlower has a concave, coloured 

 empalement, which is cut into five parts ; it has five oblong blunt petals, 

 which are crenated at their points, and many awl-shaped stamina, terminated 

 by single summits, with a roundish germen, supporting a slender style the 

 length of the stamina, crowned by an obtuse five-cornered stigma. The ger- 

 men becomes afterwards a thick globular capsule with five cells, opening at 

 the base, with five valves, each containing one roundish seed. 



315. There are several varieties of the Lime, and the 

 Common Lime in England is too well known to require 

 any description as to its outward api)earanccs. It is well 

 known to attain a great height, to be very beautiful in its 

 foliage in the former part of the summer; to have a leaf, 

 however, that dies early, that becomes rather ugly by Au- 

 gust, and that litters the ground all over by the month of 

 September. This tree, which is never placed in plantations 



