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Floral-leaf yellowish green, nearly as long as the fruit-stalks, and attached 
to it for about half its length. A large and stately tree. Bark smooth. 
Blossoms small, fragrant, yellowish white, cymose, pendulous. Branches 
smooth, when young often tinged with red. Leaves alternate, on leaf¬ 
stalks, ramifications of the veins underneath hairy. Calyx woolly at the 
edge. Petals blunt, concave. Stamens thread-shaped. Stigma five- 
cloven. E.) 
Lime Tree. Linden Tree. (Welsh: Pisgwydden; Gwaglwyfen. E.) 
Woods and hedges. T. July.* 
* (The Lime tree, the “ Tilice Iceves" of the Mantuan bard, has been lauded in every 
age: though the Venusean courtier affects to despise the wonted assistance of its tender 
shreda to secure the effeminate decoration of his own person, 
“ Displicent nexae Philyra corona*.” Od. xviii. 
“ Ribands from the Linden tree 
Give a wreath no charms for me.” 
Sannazaro distinguished it by the epithet incorruptible, “ la incorrutihile Tiglia ; ” 
“ non sente mai corrotione di sorte alcuna ; ” probably alluding to the imperishable nature 
of its papyraceous bark. This bark also possesses the almost peculiar property of being 
exempt from the depredations of hares. 
“ The Line or Linden tree,” saith Gerard, “ waxeth very greate and thicke, spreading 
foorth his branches wide and far abroad, being a tree which yeeldeth a most pleasant 
shadow, under and within whose boughes may be made brave sommer houses and 
banketting arbors.” p. 1298. The whole of Evelyn’s description is peculiarly animated. 
He concludes, “ Is there a more ravishing or delightful object, than to behold some entire 
streets and whole towns planted with these trees, in even lines before their doors, so as they 
even seem like cities in a wood? This is extremely fresh, of admirable effect against the 
epilepsy, for which the delicately scented blossoms are held prevalent, and skreen the houses 
both from winds, sun, and dust, than which there can be nothing more desirable where 
streets are much frequented : for thus 
“The stately Lime , smooth, gentle, straight, and fair, 
(With which no other Dryad can compare), 
With verdant locks, and fragrant blossoms deckt. 
Does a large, even, odorate shade project.” Cowley. 
Dr. Hunter adds : “The Lime is a handsome picturesque tree, forming a beautiful cone 
by its branches, and maintaining its body taper and straight; and as it will grow to a large 
size, it is very proper to be planted for avenues ; it also makes a beautiful detached object 
in parks and open places. Although the leaves fall off very early in the autumn, 
“ Those virgin leaves, of purest vivid green, 
Which charm’d ere yet they trembled on the trees, 
» * * * 
The Lime first-fading;” 
Yet it immediately makes amends by exhibiting its beautiful, red twigs ; for which reason 
the red-twigged Lime should always be preferred for these purposes. If planted in a rich 
and loamy earth, wherein it chiefly delights, the growth of it will be almost incredible. 
In the pleasure-ground of the palace at Bishopthorpe, belonging to the Archbishop of York, 
there is a noble walk of stately Lime trees, which exceeds any thing of the kind in this 
island: 
-“ a pillar’d shade 
High overarch’d.” 
At Depeham, in Norfolk, a Lime tree, the “ Tilia Colossea Depemensis ” of Evelyn, 
measured at some distance above the ground thirty-six feet girt, and rose to a height of 
ninety feet. Strutt delineates one in Moor park, Hertfordshire, seventeen feet girt at three 
feet from the ground, and one hundred feet high ; containing eight hundred and seventy- 
five feet of saleable timber, and which struck out nineteen horizontal branches from sixty to 
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