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A REFRESHING CUP HOWEVER YOU MEASURE IT!
Tilia platyphyllos - Large Leaved Lime, Linden,
Broad Leaved Lime
Family - Tiliaceae
Description--FAIRLY COMMON IN ONTARIO ,QUEBEC AND SOUTH IN USA.
A BEE KEEPERS FAVORITE,HEALING HEALTY HONEY TREE.
Large deciduous tree rare and restricted in habitats.
Height 32m
Habitat
Woods.
Natural Distribution
Woods by River Wye, Teme and Severn and in
South Yorkshire. Not native to Ireland but
throughout France, Central Europe and Asia Minor.
The Tree Year
Flowers Leaves Fruit Ripen Fall
June April/May
Propagation and Growth
COMMON IN NORTH AMERICAN CITIES IN PARKS AND ARBORITUMS.
COMMONLY USED AS A BORDER FOR PLAYING FIELDS AND A FAST GROWING SHADE
TREE FOR STREETS. BE UNUSUAL BRING A SMALL LADDER,ASK PERMISSION AND
FILL
SOME BASKET WORK BAGS AND BASKETS WITH THE FLOWERS FRESH IN
SEASON,DRY ,
STORE IN JARS WHEN THOROUGHLY DRY FOR YEAR ROUND "COMPANY" TEA &
NIGHTCAP!
Deeply dormant seed. Treat as Acer campestre but
start treatment approx 12 months before planting.
Approx 6000 seeds per kg.
Timber
See Tilia cordata.
Uses of Wood
See Tilia cordata.
Food and Drink
See Tilia cordata.
Related Species
See Tilia cordata.
Tilia cordata - Small leaved Lime, TILLUEL,Linden
Family - Tiliaceae
Description:
Large deciduous tree believed at one time to have been dominant tree
in English forests.COMMON IN NORTH AMERICAN CITIES IN PARKS AND
ARBORITUMS.
COMMONLY USED AS A BORDER FOR PLAYING FIELDS AND A FAST GROWING SHADE
TREE FOR STREETS. BE UNUSUAL BRING A SMALL LADDER,ASK PERMISSION AND
FILL
SOME BASKET WORK BAGS AND BASKETS WITH THE FLOWERS FRESH IN
SEASON,DRY ,
STORE IN JARS WHEN THOROUGHLY DRY FOR YEAR ROUND "COMPANY" TEA &
NIGHTCAP!
Height 38 m. Age 500 years
Habitat
Woods and cliffs except limestone. Sometimes
forms pure stands but usually with Ash, Hawthorn, Field Maple, Birch,
Oak, Wild Cherry and Wych Elm.
Moderately tolerant of shade. Coppices strongly.
Natural Distribution
England and Wales, and Southern Scotland not
Ireland. Also most of Western Europe except
Southern Spain, Italy and Greece.
The Tree Year
Flowers Leaves Fruit Ripen Fall
July April/May Sept
Propagation and Growth
Grown from seed. Deeply dormant treat as Acer
campestre except start treatment 10 months
before planting. Approximately 20,000 seeds per kg but germination
variable. Also grown from cuttings.
Timber
Relatively soft white or yellow wood, valuable
timber. Does not change dimensions or warp once seasoned.
Uses of Wood
Good for carving and making small articles and model making. Bark has
strong fibre (bast) and once used for ropes.
Food and Drink
Sugar can be made from sap and beekeepers regard as a good source of
nectar. On continent flowers dried to make tea.
Related Species
Common Lime is a hybrid of Tilia cordata and
T. platyphyllos
KNOW THIS TEA'S TOPS-CONTAINS BLOOD CLEANSERS AND IS GOOD FOR THE
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JUST BECAUSE IT TASTES GOOD! MOST PEOPLE WITH A TREE WILL SHARE SOME
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Article and Photos by Leslie Day BASSWODD TREE or AMERICAN LINDEN
TREE Tilia Americana Linnaeus Common Names: American Basswood, Bee
Tree, Whitewood, Limetree. In late June and early July, can you smell
a sweet, haunting fragrance wafting around the city? It comes from
the American Linden or Basswood tree, a large tree, growing up to 130
feet tall with a trunk diameter of 2 to 3 feet, and a rounded crown.
The bark is furrowed with large "S" shaped ridges going up the trunk.
The Linden is often planted as a shade or street tree because of its
fairly rapid rate of growth, plentiful shade and fragrant flowers. In
cities its fruit are eaten by squirrels, while in the country its
fruit are eaten by chipmunks and other small rodents. White-tailed
deer and cottontail rabbits eat the bark and sprouts during the
winter. Old basswoods are very frequently hollow, making excellent
nesting and den sites for many kinds of birds and mammals.
& FLOWERS: The fragrant flowers of the Linden tree hang from the
middle of leafy, ribbon-like green bracts in long-stalked clusters.
The flowers are tiny, with 5 yellowish-white petals. During the last
weeks of June and first weeks of July they exude a powerful, haunting
scent that can be detected up to a mile away. The flowers possess a
nectar which attracts bees and produces a strong flavored honey. When
this tree is in flower it will be full of bees, hence its common
name "Bee Tree". During the three weeks that the Lindens bloom, bees
forsake most other flowers. The honey that they make of Linden nectar
is white in color, and regarded as high in quality. The flowers when
gathered and dried can be used to make tea. During the flowering
period, the people that manufacture perfumes use the heady scent for
their products.
& FRUIT: When the flowers go to seed they form small nutlets that
contain l to 2 seeds each, clustered beneath large leafy wing bracts
which act as parachutes as they carry the seeds to the ground. The
fruits are woody and about the size of peas. LEAVES: The leaves are
heart-shaped, 4-6 inches long, 3-4 inches wide, dark green
& with extremely shiny undersides. When the wind blows, the leaf
blades are flung over to reveal a glistening bright underside. WOOD:
Linden wood is soft and creamy, and it is much favored by woodcarvers
because of its workability (it is said to "cut like cheese") and its
even grain. In past centuries it was used to make ship's figureheads
and cigar-store Indians. Today it is used for broom handles, beehive
frames, piano sounding boards and certain parts of guitars.
& BARK: The Linden's inner bark is fibrous and can be twisted and
woven into cords, ropes and matting. Native Americans of the
Northeastern tribes used it to make bags to carry food in and thongs.
Rope was made from it by "retting" - keeping the bark under water for
about a month, until the soft tissues rotted away leaving the fibrous
tissue. Thread made of Basswood bark was used to stitch together mats
made of cattail leaves and the bark was used to bind up warriors
wounds. The Iroquois carved masks from the sapwood on the living tree
and then split it off from the trunk and hollowed it out from behind.
& RANGE: Quebec south to Delaware, Atlantic coast west to Eastern
Kentucky. HABITAT: The Linden prefers moist soils of valleys and
uplands; in hardwood forests. MYTHOLOGY: The Green Dryads or tree
spirits were said to be wedded to Linden trees. In Roman mythology
the Linden tree was a symbol of conjugal love and fidelity.
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ALABAMA
Sand Mountain Herbs (Fyffe, Ala.)
ARIZONA
Native Seeds / SEARCH (Tucson, Ariz.)
Seeds Trust (Cornville, Ariz.)
CALIFORNIA
Bountiful Gardens (Willits, Calif.)
J. L. Hudson, Seedsman (LaHonda, Calif.)
Laurels Heirloom Tomato Plants (Lomita, Calif.)
Mountain Valley Growers (Squaw Valley, Calif.)
Natural Gardening Co. (Petaluma, Calif.)
Ornamental Edibles (San Jose, Calif.)
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply (Grass Valley, Calif.)
Redwood City Seeds (Redwood City, Calif.)
Renees Garden (Felton, Calif.)
COLORADO
Botanical Interests (Broomfield, Colo.)
Golden Harvest Organics (Fort Collins, Colo.)
The Garlic Store (Fort Collins, Colo.)
CONNECTICUT
Comstock, Ferre & Co. (Wethersfield, Conn.)
John Sheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds (Bantam, Conn.)
New England Seed (Hartford, Conn.)
FLORIDA
Eden Organic Nursery Services (E.O.N.S.) (Hallandale, Fla.)
The Gourmet Gardener (Live Oak, Fla.)
The Pepper Gal (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
Tomato Growers Supply Co. (Fort Myers, Fla.)
ILLINOIS
American Organic Seed & Grain (Warren, Ill.)
Underwood Gardens (Woodstock, Ill.)
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Great Harvest Organics (Atlanta, Ind.)
The Chile Woman (Bloomington, Ind.)
IOWA
Blue River Organic Seed (Kelley, Iowa)
Mark Seed Co. (Perry, Iowa)
Sand Hill Preservation Center (Calamus, Iowa)
Seed Savers Exchange (Decorah, Iowa)
KANSAS
Pendletons Country Market (Lawrence, Kan.)
Skyfire Garden Seeds (Kanopolis, Kan.)
KENTUCKY
Ferry-Morse Seed Company (Fulton, Ky.)
Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center (Berea, Ky.)
MAINE
FEDCO Seeds (Waterville, Maine)
Johnnys Selected Seeds (Winslow, Maine)
Pinetree Garden Seeds (New Gloucester, Maine)
Wood Prairie Farm (Bridgewater, Maine)
MARYLAND
Pepper Joe's (Timonium, Md.)
MICHIGAN
Krohne Plant Farms, Inc. (Hartford, Mich.)
MINNESOTA
Albert Lea Seed House (Albert Lea, Minn.)
MISSOURI
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Pantry Garden Herbs (Cleveland, Mo.)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
G & H Garlic Farm (Littleton, N. H.)
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Thompson & Morgan (Jackson, N.J.)
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Gourmet Seed International (Tatum, N.M.)
Plants of the Southwest (Santa Fe and Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Seeds West Garden Seeds (Albuquerque, N.M.)
NEW YORK
Harris Seeds (Rochester, N.Y.)
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Stokes Seeds Inc. (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Turtle Tree Seed (Copake, N.Y.)
NORTH CAROLINA
Appalachian Seeds (Flat Rock, N.C.)
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Container Seeds (Wellsboro, Penn.)
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Park Seed Co. (Greenwood, S.C.)
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TENNESSEE
Mariannas Heirloom Seeds (Dickson, Tenn.)
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VERMONT
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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (Mineral, Va.)
WASHINGTON
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Osborne Seed Company (Mount Vernon, Wash.)
WISCONSIN
Botanikka Seeds (Iron Ridge, Wis.)
Totally Tomatoes (Randolf, Wis.)
Vermont Bean Seed Co. (Randolph, Wis.)
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Boundary Garlic Farm (Midway, British Columbia)
Gardeners Web (Bowden, Alberta)
Holes Greenhouses & Gardens (St. Albert, Alberta)
Salt Spring Seeds (Salt Spring Island, British Columbia)
Stellar Seeds (Sorrento, British Columbia)
West Coast Seeds (Delta, British Columbia)
William Dam Seeds (Dundas, Ontario)
Richter's (Goodwood, Ontario)
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Descript : The common Solomon's Seal rises up with a round stalk half
a yard high, bowing or bending down to the ground, set with single
leaves one above another, somewhat large, and like the leaves of the
lily-convally, or May-lily, with an eye of bluish upon the green,
with some ribs therein, and more yellowish underneath. At the foot of
every leaf, almost from the bottom up to the top of the stalk, come
forth small, long, white and hollow pendulous flowers, somewhat like
the flowers of May-lily, but ending in five long points, for the most
part two together, at the end of a long foot-stalk, and sometimes but
one, and sometimes also two stalks, and flowers at the foot of a
leaf, which are without any scent at all, and stand on the top of the
stalk. After they are past, come in their places small round berries
great at the first, and blackish green, tending to blueness when they
are ripe, wherein lie small, white, hard, and stony seeds. The root
is of the thickness of one's finger or thumb, white and knotted in
some places, a flat round circle representing a Seal, whereof it took
the name, lying along under the upper crust of the earth, and not
growing downward, but with many fibres underneath.
Place : It is frequent in divers places of this land; as, namely in a
wood two miles from Canterbury, by Fish-Pool Hill, as also in Bushy
Close belonging to the parsonage of Alderbury, near Clarendon, two
miles from Salisbury: in Cheffon wood, on Chesson Hill, between
Newington and Sittingbourne in Kent, and divers other places in
Essex, and other counties.
Time : It flowers about May. The root abides and shoots a-new every
year.
Government and virtues : Saturn owns the plant, for he loves his
bones well. The root of Solomon's Seal is found by experience to be
available in wounds, hurts, and outward sores, to heal and close up
the lips of those that are green, and to dry up and restrain the flux
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vomitings and bleeding wheresoever, as also all fluxes in man or
woman; also, to knit any joint, which by weakness uses to be often
out of place, or will not stay in long when it is set; also to knit
and join broken bones in any part of the body, the roots being
bruised and applied to the places; yea, it hath been found by
experience, and the decoction of the root in wine, or the bruised
root put into wine or other drink, and after a night's infusion,
strained forth hard and drank, hath helped both man and beast, whose
bones hath been broken by any occasion, which is the most assured
refuge of help to people of divers counties of the land that they can
have. It is no less effectual to help ruptures and burstings, the
decoction in wine, or the powder in broth or drink, being inwardly
taken, and outwardly applied to the place. The same is also available
for inward or outward bruises, falls or blows, both to dispel the
congealed blood, and to take away both the pains and the black and
blue marks that abide after the hurt. The same also, or the distilled
water of the whole plant, used to the face, or other parts of the
skin, cleanses it from morphew, freckles, spots, or marks whatsoever,
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A LITTLE BIT FROM THE WAR OF THE WORLDS BY H>G>Wells
After the glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the
cylinder in which they had come to the earth from their planet, a
kind of fascination paralysed my actions. I remained standing knee-
deep in the heather, staring at the mound that hid them. I was a
battleground of fear and curiosity.
I did not dare to go back towards the pit, but I felt a pas- sionate
longing to peer into it. I began walking, therefore, in a big curve,
seeking some point of vantage and continually looking at the sand
heaps that hid these new-comers to our earth. Once a leash of thin
black whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset
and was immediately with- drawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up,
joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a
wobbling motion. What could be going on there?
Most of the spectators had gathered in one or two groups --one a
little crowd towards Woking, the other a knot of people in the
direction of Chobham. Evidently they shared my mental conflict. There
were few near me. One man I approached--he was, I perceived, a
neighbour of mine, though I did not know his name--and accosted. But
it was scarcely a time for articulate conversation.
"What ugly brutes!" he said. "Good God! What ugly brutes!" He
repeated this over and over again.
"Did you see a man in the pit?" I said; but he made no answer to
that. We became silent, and stood watching for a time side by side,
deriving, I fancy, a certain comfort in one another's company. Then I
shifted my position to a little knoll that gave me the advantage of a
yard or more of eleva- tion and when I looked for him presently he
was walking towards Woking.
The sunset faded to twilight before anything further hap- pened. The
crowd far away on the left, towards Woking, seemed to grow, and I
heard now a faint murmur from it. The little knot of people towards
Chobham dispersed. There was scarcely an intimation of movement from
the pit.
It was this, as much as anything, that gave people courage, and I
suppose the new arrivals from Woking also helped to restore
confidence. At any rate, as the dusk came on a slow, intermittent
movement upon the sand pits began, a move- ment that seemed to gather
force as the stillness of the eve- ning about the cylinder remained
unbroken. Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance,
stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a
thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its
attenuated horns. I, too, on my side began to move towards the pit.
Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand
pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. I saw a
lad trundling off the barrow of apples. And then, within thirty yards
of the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little
black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag.
This was the Deputation. There had been a hasty consulta- tion, and
since the Martians were evidently, in spite of their repulsive forms,
intelligent creatures, it had been resolved to show them, by
approaching them with signals, that we too were intelligent.
Flutter, flutter, went the flag, first to the right, then to the
left. It was too far for me to recognise anyone there, but afterwards
I learned that Ogilvy, Stent, and Henderson were with others in this
attempt at communication. This little group had in its advance
dragged inward, so to speak, the circumference of the now almost
complete circle of people, and a number of dim black figures followed
it at discreet distances.
Suddenly there was a flash of light, and a quantity of luminous
greenish smoke came out of the pit in three distinct puffs, which
drove up, one after the other, straight into the still air.
This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was
so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of
brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to
darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after
their dispersal. At the same time a faint hissing sound became
audible.
Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag
at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small
vertical black shapes upon the black ground. As the green smoke
arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it
vanished. Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long,
loud, droning noise. Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and
the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.
Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to
another, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if some
invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It was
as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.
Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw them staggering
and falling, and their supporters turning to run.
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping
from man to man in that little distant crowd. All I felt was that it
was something very strange. An almost noise- less and blinding flash
of light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the unseen
shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every
dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames. And far
away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges and
wooden buildings suddenly set alight.
It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this
invisible, inevitable sword of heat. I perceived it coming towards me
by the flashing bushes it touched, and was too astounded and
stupefied to stir. I heard the crackle of fire in the sand pits and
the sudden squeal of a horse that was as suddenly stilled. Then it
was as if an invisible yet intensely heated finger were drawn through
the heather between me and the Martians, and all along a curving line
beyond the sand pits the dark ground smoked and crackled. Something
fell with a crash far away to the left where the road from Woking
station opens out on the common. Forth- with the hissing and humming
ceased, and the black, dome- like object sank slowly out of sight
into the pit.
All this had happened with such swiftness that I had stood
motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. Had that
death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me
in my surprise. But it passed and spared me, and left the night about
me suddenly dark and un- familiar.
The undulating common seemed now dark almost to blackness, except
where its roadways lay grey and pale under the deep blue sky of the
early night. It was dark, and sud- denly void of men. Overhead the
stars were mustering, and in the west the sky was still a pale,
bright, almost greenish blue. The tops of the pine trees and the
roofs of Horsell came out sharp and black against the western
afterglow. The Mar- tians and their appliances were altogether
invisible, save for that thin mast upon which their restless mirror
wobbled. Patches of bush and isolated trees here and there smoked and
glowed still, and the houses towards Woking station were sending up
spires of flame into the stillness of the evening air.
Nothing was changed save for that and a terrible astonish- ment. The
little group of black specks with the flag of white had been swept
out of existence, and the stillness of the evening, so it seemed to
me, had scarcely been broken.
It came to me that I was upon this dark common, helpless,
unprotected, and alone. Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from
without, came--fear.
With an effort I turned and began a stumbling run through the
heather.
The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of
the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me. Such an
extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping
silently as a child might do. Once I had turned, I did not dare to
look back.
I remember I felt an extraordinary persuasion that I was being played
with, that presently, when I was upon the very verge of safety, this
mysterious death--as swift as the passage of light--would leap after
me from the pit about the cylinder and strike me dowpn.
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