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It is not, however, so much cultivated in this as in many other countries, particularly in Germany and Switzer- 
land, where there are some of the largest in the world; and in Holland, where they not only shelter and adorn 
the highways, but are planted in many towns in even lines before the houses, throughout the streets, filling the 
air with the fragrance of their blossoms, and screening the passengers from the sun, with the luxuriance of their 
shade. It is peculiarly adapted for avenues, from the straightness of its stem, and the luxuriant spreading of its 
branches, which are likewise so tough as to withstand the fury of gales that would dismember most other trees. 
The red-twigged Lime is preferable for this purpose in point of beauty, on account of the pleasing spectacle 
which the red twigs afford in the absence of its leaves. 
The Lime Tree can accommodate itself to almost any kind of ground ; but in a rich loamy soil it grows with 
almost incredible swiftness, and spreads to an amazing size. Hvelyn thus describes some of the giants of this 
species: “ But here does properly intervene the Linden of Schalouse in Swisse, under which is a bower com- 
posed of its branches, capable of containing three hundred persons sitting at ease: it has a fountain set about 
with many tables, formed only of the boughs, to which they ascend by steps, all kept so accurately, and so very 
thick, that the sun never looks into it. But this is nothing to that prodigious Tilia of Neustadt, in the Duchy of 
Wirtemberg, so famous for its monstrosity, that even the city itself receives a denomination from it, being called. 
_ by the Germans Neustadt ander grossen Linden, or Neustadt by the great Lime Tree. The circumference of the 
trunk is twenty-seven feet four fingers; the ambitus, or extent of the boughs, four hundred and three feré; the 
diameter, from south to north one hundred and forty-five, from east to west one hundred and nineteen feet ; set 
about with divers columns and monuments of stone, (eighty-two in number at present, and formerly above a 
hundred more,) which several Princes and Noble Persons have adorned, and celebrated with inscriptions, arms, 
and devices; and which, as so many pillars, serve likewise to support the umbrageous and venerable boughs ; 
and that even the tree had been much ampler, the ruins and distances of the columns declare, which the rude 
soldiers have greatly impaired.”—Discourse on Forest Trees, p. 493. edit. 1776. ; 
Leaving, however, these “ monstrosities,” as Evelyn styles them, we may turn with perhaps more real inte- 
rest to the beautiful specimen of the Lime Tree afforded us in Moor-Park, Hertfordshire, the family seat of 
Robert Williams, Esq. ; a place venerable for its antiquity, and familiar to the lovers of gardening by Sir William 
Temple’s eulogium on it, as affording in his time the most perfect combination of garden elegance and utility in 
England. This tree, standing upon a little eminence, finely terminates a row of stately Limes which bound one 
side of the Park for more than three quarters of a mile; all of which are more lofty and some of larger girth 
than this; but none equalling it in luxuriance of shade, and redundancy of branches, nineteen of which, almost 
rivalling the parent stem, have, at about nine feet from the ground, struck out in horizontal lines to the length 
of from sixty-seven to seventy-one feet, and from six to eight feet in circumference, bearing again in their turn 
three or four upright limbs, like so many young trees, and reminding the beholder of prosperous colonies, at once 
supported by, and adding to the importance of, their mother country. Its age is not exactly known ; but it is at 
this present period in the most vigorous state of luxurious growth, and has every promise of attaining a much 
larger size. Its circumference on the ground is twenty-three feet three inches; at three feet above, it is seven- 
teen feet six inches; its branches extend one hundred and twenty-two feet in diameter, and cover three hundred 
and sixty feet in circumference. It is nearly a hundred feet in height, and contains, 
by actual measurement, 
eight hundred and seventy-five feet of saleable timber. 
PLATE XVI—THE ELMS AT MONGEWELL.. 
Tuuse noble trees are close to the residence of the Bisho 
well in Oxfordshire, celebrated by Leland for its “faire wood 
Cowper’s eulogium on shades so natural and delightful. 
p of Durham, whose property they are, at Monge- 
es,” and forcibly recall to the mind of the beholder 
“ Our fathers knew the value of a screen 
From sultry suns, and in their shaded walks 
And long protracted bowers enjoyed, at noon, 
The gloom and coolness of declining day.” 
The principal tree among 
them is seventy-nine feet in height, fourteen in circumference at three feet from 
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