The Tilia Americana.
1805. [The birds were] hovering round the top of an old bosswood [sic] tree.—Mass. Spy, July 17.
1808. Advertisement of land with basswood, &c., on the Kennebeck River.—The Repertory, June 28 (Boston).
1824. A man is never a man till he can defy wind and weather, range woods and wilds, sleep under a tree and live on basswood leaves!—W. Irving, ‘Bracebridge Hall,’ ii. 271. (N.E.D.)
1850. I want to see how many wooden nutmegs, horn flints, and basswood hams have been made and sent to the South since the last census.—Mr. Howe of Pa., House of Reps., April 30: Cong. Globe, p. 861.
