TIL 
TIL 
March. A sufficient number of pans are 
to be filled with light loam, or loam, 
leaf-mould, and sand in equal quantities; 
the surface being pressed smooth and 
firm, the seed is distributed moderately 
thick over it, and covered with about 
half an inch of the soil. 
A moderate hot-bed should receive 
them, where, with attention to watering, 
the young plants will come up in about 
three or four weeks. They must be con¬ 
tinued in the protection of the frame for 
another similar period, and may then be 
gradually inured to the open air. They 
are best in the open air through the 
summer, though it is necessary to shade 
them from the full influence of the sun, 
and also to supply regularly with water 
as required, or they soon suffer from 
drought. If they grow rapidly, it may 
be necessary to transplant them to other 
pans or boxes, where they may be allowed 
more space, or a better plan is to pot 
them separately into three-inch pots, and, 
if this is done about the end of July, and 
they are attended with care through the 
remainder of the season, a considerable 
growth will be attained. Through the 
winter it will be necessary to protect 
them in frames or pits, or, if these can¬ 
not be afforded, the pots should be 
plunged in ashes and hooped over, so as 
to cover them with mats in severe wea¬ 
ther. The same eare will be necessary 
for the first two winters of their ex¬ 
istence, even with the common kinds; 
and for the more tender, as the Chinese 
and pendulous, it is positively requisite 
to supply even more, by placing the 
young plants in a good pit, or the green¬ 
house, otherwise a considerable loss will 
be incurred, as, in their infant state, they 
are speedily injured by cold. In the 
third season they may be transferred to 
the open ground, and will not require 
any further care of the kind. Such as 
do not produce seed readily may be in¬ 
creased by cuttings, taken in August, 
and bedded into a warm border, where 
they can be protected with mats, or a 
frame in winter. They root sufficiently 
to be removed by the following autumn. 
TILIA, Lime-Tree (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Tiliacece. The lime or linden tree is 
among the most popular of our arbo¬ 
rescent vegetation; its rapid growth, 
easy management, and the docility with 
which it becomes reconciled to the most 
unpromising situations, are qualities 
which could not fail to recommend it to 
general favour, and hence it may be ob¬ 
served as the prevailing form in suburban 
plantations. It is somewhat remarkable, 
however, that for a long period it failed 
to attract the attention since so liberally 
given. Our woods produce several va¬ 
rieties of the common lime spontaneously, 
and yet it was reserved fpr modern 
nurserymen to cultivate them so as to be 
available for ornamental purposes. In 
the time of Evelyn, who complains loudly 
of the practice, it was usual to import the 
Hungarian species alba from Holland and 
Elanders, while abundance of the more 
suitable Ear op tea could have been had in 
our own country for the trouble of pro¬ 
pagating. His suggestions, however, 
awoke attention, and now an abundance 
of the tree is an essential feature in every 
nursery where such tilings are grown at 
all. In large plantations, the pleasing 
bright green of the foliage affords an 
agreeable relief to the more sombre tints 
of the majority of their neighbours, and 
the softened light which falls through the 
leaves, is most grateful in the sultry heats 
of summer; in smaller places they are 
equally appropriate, with the single ex¬ 
ception that they should not be placed 
very near the dressed portion of the 
garden on account of the continued litter 
of falling leaves in the end of summer 
and autumn; and in addition to their 
other qualifications, we must not omit 
mention of the facility with which they 
may be trained to form a blind or screen 
even in the most confined places. A very 
common objection justly raised to the 
ordinary mode of. arranging suburban 
residences, is that through it the privacy 
and retirement for which they are mainly 
desired, is completely destroyed, the 
amateur gardener or his friends cannot 
move into what would otherwise prove a 
favorite resort, without feeling that a 
score of windows (if nothing else) are 
constantly watching their every move¬ 
ment : and though we may repudiate any 
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