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LARGE LEAVED LINDEN, OR LIME. 
inches to a foot in diameter are selected for this purpose. 
These strips are steeped in water till the bark separates 
freely into layers, it is then taken out and separated into 
strands, which are dried in the shade, and afterwards 
manufactured into the mats so much used by gardeners 
and upholsterers, and for covering packages. The 
fishermen of Sweden make fishing-nets of the fibres of 
the inner bark, formed into a kind of flax; and the 
shepherds of Carniola even weave a coarse cloth of it, 
which serves them for their ordinary clothing. The 
whole plant abounds with mucilage, the sap, like that of 
the Maple, affords a considerable quantity of sugar, and 
the honey produced by the flowers is considered superior 
to all other kinds for its delicacy, selling at three or 
four times the price of common honey; in Europe it is 
used exclusively in medicine, and for making some 
particular kinds of liqueurs , especially Rosolio. This 
Lime tree honey is only to be procured at the little town 
of Kowno, on the river Nieman, in Lithuania, which is 
surrounded by an extensive forest of Lime trees. The 
triturated fruit produces also a paste very similar to that 
of Cocoa. During the taste for grotesque decorations, 
the Lime, like the Yew, was cut into various imitative 
forms, and in some of the public gardens of recreation 
round Paris and Amsterdam there are very imposing 
colonnades, arcades, walls, pyramids, and other archi- 
tectural looking masses formed of this tree. 
The European Linden attains a height of upwards of 
100 feet, and grows with vigour for several centuries. 
In Switzerland there are some very large and ancient 
Lime trees: one mentioned by Decandolle the younger, 
near Morges, has a trunk of 24 feet 4 inches in cir- 
cumference; another near the great church at Berne, 
which was planted before the year 1410, is 36 feet in 
girth. 
