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ARBORETUM AND FIIUTJCETUM. 



FART III. 



Hague, some of which are between 70 ft. and 80 ft. in height, with trunks between 3 ft. and 4 ft. in 

 diameter. In the neighbourhood of Ghent and of Brussels, the tree is seldom to be found 

 above 60ft. high; and in the native forests, where it is indigenous, not often so much. In 

 Austria, in the park at Schoiibrunn, there is a lime tree, 70 years planted, which is 75ft. high ; at 

 Laxenburg, (50 years planted and 55 ft. high ; and many others of similar heights, or higher, are to be 

 found. In Wirtemberg, at Neustadt an der Linde, is a tree, from which the town takes its name, of 

 unknown age, and great size ; the trunk girts 54 ft., and rises 15 ft. high before the branches begin ; 

 the whole height of the tree is about 100 ft. Tlie branches extend to nearly 100 ft. on each side ot the 

 trunk, and they are supported by 108 pillars, some of which are of wood, and some of stone ; there ia 

 a place of entertainment formed in the head of the tree, which is ascended to by a flight of steps. In 

 the hollows of the branches, earth has been placed, and gooseberry bushes planted, which bear fruit 

 which is sold to visitors. The avenue of lime trees in Berlin (Der Linden Strasse) is celebrated. In 

 Denmark, T. europse'a and T. e. raicrophylla attain the height of from 60 ft. to 70 ft. in the royal 

 gardens in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen. In Sweden, in the botanic garden at Lund, there is a 

 lime tree which is 60 ft high, with a trunk jft. .3 in. in diameter. In Switzerland, according to Cox, 

 and to M. Alphonse De Candolle, p. 160., there are some very large lime trees. One, near Morges, has 

 a trunk 24 ft. 4 in. in circumference; another, near the great church at Berne, which was planted 

 before the year 1+10, is 36 ft. in girt; and a third, near Morat, which is, probably, one of those 

 referred to by M. De Candolle, is not less than 90 ft. high, and of the .same girt as the last. In p. 169. 

 bome other remarkable lime trees are mentioned. Mr. Strutt, the most celebrated artist in dendro- 

 graphy which this country has ever produced, and who is now (January, 1836) in Switzerland, has, 

 we believe, taken sketches of all these trees, which he will, in all probability, engrave and publish on 

 l}is return to England, 



Commercial Statistics. The common lime is propagated for sale in all the 

 European nurseries, and in some of those of North America. The price varies 

 according to the size of the plants. In London, plants from layers, 3 ft. to 

 4ft. hiirh, cost 20s. a hundred; from 5ft. to 6ft. high, 30s. a hundred; anti 

 from 7 ft. to 10 ft. high, 2s. 6d. each. At Bollwyller, plants of the common 

 lime are 1 franc each ; of the common yellow-twigged variety 2 francs each ; 

 and of the cut-leaved variety, which, we believe, was originally brought from 

 tliat nursery, 5 francs each. In New York, ?. 



^ 2. T. (eur.) a''lb.\ Waldst. Sr Kit. The whiit-leaved European Lime Tree. 



Idenlificatioii. Waldst. and Kit. PI. Hung.; Wats. Deiidr. Brit. ; Hort. Kew.j2.p.230.5 Hayne 



Dend., p. 113. ; Don's Mill, I. p. 553. 

 St/iimymes. T. americJma Du lioi ; T. argentea Desf., Dec. Cat. Hort. Monsp., and Dec. Prod., 1. 



p 513. ; T. rotundifblia Vent, and iV. Du Ham. ; T. tomentbsa Mcench. 

 Engravings. Waldst. and Kit. PI. Hung., 1. t, o. ; Vent. Diss., t. 4. ; N. Du Ham., t. 52. ; Wats. 



Dend., t. 71. ; and our plate in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char. Petals each with a scale at the base inside. Leaves cordate^ 

 somewhat acuminated, and rather unequal at the base, serrated, clothed with 

 with white down beneath, but smooth above, 4 times longer than the petioles. 

 Fruit ovate, with 5 obscure ribs. (Don^s Mill., i. p. 553.) Fruit evidently 

 ribbed. (Steven, in N'ouv. Mem. de la Sue. Imp. des Naturalistcs de Aluscou, 

 tome iii. p. 103.) A native of Hungary ; with yellowish and very fragrant 

 flowers, produced from June to August. Introduced in 1767. 



Description. Our own bp'nion is, that this is nothing more than a very 

 distinct race of the common lime; notwithstanding the circumstance of its 

 having scales to its petals, as noticed by Watson in his Deiidrologia., which 

 no one of the other varieties of T. europ£e"'a is said to possess. Even allowing 

 this structure to be permanent in the Hungarian lime, the tree bears such a 

 general resenibiance to 7\ europae^a in all its main feature.?, that it seems to us 

 impossible to doubt the identity of their origin. We are strengthened in this 

 opinion by the circumstance of its being found only in isolated stations 

 in the Hungarian forests. We have, however, placed this lime by itself, 

 rather than among the other varieties ; because, from the whiteness of its 

 foliage, it is far more obviously distinct than T. e. platyphylla or T. e. 

 microphylla. The tree is at once distinguishable from all the other spe- 

 cies and varieties by this white appearance, even at a considerable distance, 

 and by the strikingly snowy hue of its leaves when they arc ruffled by the 

 wind. Its wood and shoots resemble those of the common lime; but it does 

 not attain the same height as that tree. At High Clere, where a number of 

 plants of this species are sprinkled along the approach road, its line of du-ec- 

 tion may be traced at some miles' distance, through the apparently dense forest, 

 by their white tops appearing at intervals among the other trees. 

 ' Geograpln/, llisiory, tVc The white lime was discovered by Kitaibel in the 

 woods of Hungary, where it is rare ; it was also seen by Olivier near Con- 

 stantinople. It was sent to Gordon, at Mile End, in the year 1767; whence it 



