tliC firft fanimer. The autumn follovving (if they 

 arc dole in the Iccd-bed) it will be proper to trani- 

 pLmt them into a nurferyj in rows at three tcct diftance, 

 and two feet afuader-in the rov;s-, in which place they 

 iTiay remain tliree or four years, by whijch time they 

 will be ia!ge enough to plant out for pood. 

 If the feeds of any of the forts cf Maple arc kept out 

 of the ground liil fpring, they rarely com.e up the fame 



.nd many tim.csdo not grow; fo that the fureft 

 " raifmg them is, toiow the feeds as foon as 

 pofTiblc when tliey are ripe-, and, if the feeds are to 

 he tranfported to any diitance, it will be proper to 

 put them up in fond, or earth, whereby their growing 

 quality will be preferved. , " . , - v ., 



The Hrft and fourth forts arc very proper to make 

 plantations near the fca, or to flicker fuch plantations 

 of trees as are too nearly fituated thereto. For both 

 thefe forts thrive, and retifts the fpray, v/hich is ufually 

 blown from the fea, better than moft other trees do. 



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 method of 



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Tlie variegated fort is alfo nrlfed from feeds of the 

 fame kind; and moft of the plants fo raifed, will be 

 as finely ftriped as the old plant from whence the feeds 

 were taken, w^hich is not common to many otlier va- 

 riegated plants. ' • . ' -' 

 The common Maple is too well known to need any 

 particular account, it growing, very frequently, in 

 hedge-rows in moft parts of England. It is railed In 

 the fame manner with the former. 

 The Virginian flowering Maple was raifed from feeds, 

 which were brought from Virginia many years fince 

 by Mr. John Tradefcant, in his garden at South Lam- 

 beth, near Vauxhall, and fince, in the gardens of the 

 Bifhop of London, at Fulham, where the trees liave 

 flowered for feveral years, and produced ripe feeds, 

 from which feveral trees have been raifed. It may be 

 alfo propagated by laying down the young branches 

 early in the fpring, giving them a little flit at a joint, 

 by which means they will have taken fufficient root in 

 two years, to be tranfplanted elfewhere. They require 



.a fituation a little defended from the north-caft winds, 

 efpecially while young-, and delight in a moift light 

 foil, in which they thrive much better than in "a dry 



■ ground, and will produce mor£ flowers, and bitter 

 feeds. This tree commonly flowers in the beginning 

 ot April, and the feeds are ripe in five or fix weeks 



' after, at which time they fliould be fowed; for they 

 are very apt to perifli, if kept long out of the ground. 

 There is another variety of the flov/ering Maple, 

 which was fent from America to Sir Charies Wager, 

 «nd flouriflied feveral years in liis garden at Parfons- 

 green, near Fulham, . This is by the gardeners titled 

 Sir Charles Wager's flowering Maple. . The flowers 

 of this kind come out in large clufters, and furround 

 the younger' brahches, fo as to appear at a fmall dif- 

 tance covered with them. It Is now^ become pretty 

 common in iome of the nurferies near London, fo 

 that the former lore is not fo much efteemed, being 

 Ids beautiful ; but it is doubtful if they are dif- 

 tind fpecies. :'.*.. ^ -^ilv',; (-^y:''- ' ^ 



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The Afh-leaved Maple is a very fl:rong fliootirtg tree, ' 

 and is, in Virginia, one of the largeft trees of this 

 land. It muft be planted in places not too much ex- ' 

 pofed to violent v/inds, being fubjed to fplit'thereby. ' 

 This tree^ripens feeds very well in England, by which 

 means it is eafily propagated, or by cuttings planted 

 in autumn. ■ v •..■'. ^ ■ 



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The Noway Maple has a milky fliarp juice, fo that 

 fev/ infedb care to prey thereon, by which means the ' 

 leaves are feldom eaten or defaced; and being fmooth, 

 and of a fliining green, they have a much better ap- 

 pearance than thole of the Sycamore; andin the fpring, 

 w^hen tie flowers are out, have great beauty. Thts 

 tree is alfo raifed by feeds, of wh.ich it afibrds great 

 quantities, which rife and grow from the fcattcred feeds 

 as well as^the common forc^ it will alfo grow from 

 cuttings, if they are planted in t-he autumn. 

 The variegated kind may alfo be propagated by in- 

 oculating a bud of the ftriped kind into one of the 

 plain fort, though I am not at prefent fure v/hcther It 

 wall talce upon any other fort of Maple, not havin^r 



guiflied. 



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made the experiment ^ but I believe it can fcarce fail. 

 Moft, if not all the other forts of Maples, take very 

 well upon eacli other. 



The American Sugar Maple has fome refemblancc to 

 the Norway, wiaen the plants are youiig; but as they 

 grow up the leaves are morc deeply di\ided, and tiieir 

 furfaces lefs fmooth, fo that they are then eafily dilLiu- 



From this tree the inhabiia-nts of Nortii 

 America make a very good fort of fugar, in large 

 quantities, by tapping the trees early in the fpring, and 

 boiling the juice, which drawn out till the faeces fub- 

 fide, is the fugar; but I am cf opinion, that the people 

 make fugar from more than one fort of Maple in 

 America, for I have found that the Afli-leaved Maple 

 abounds with a faccharine juice, in full as great plenty 

 as any other fort. Mr. Ray and Dr. Lifter, prepared 

 a tolerable good fort of fugar from our greater Maple, 

 by tapping fome .of the trees in their bleedingTeatcn-, 

 and I have obferved, upon cutting off. branches from 

 the fcarlet Maple in February, a great quantity of a 

 ver\'- fxveet juice hath flowed out for feveral days to- 



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parts ot Italy, but particularly ^bout Rome, where it 

 is one of the largeft trees of that country, and is 

 efteemed for the fize of the leaves, which are large, 

 affording a great ftade; fo that thefe trees are fre- 

 quently planted by the fides of roads, and near habi- 

 tations. In England this tree is very rarely to be met 

 with, though it is hardy enough to bear the open air; 

 but as the leeds have not been brought over to Eng- 

 land till lately, there arc no large plants in the Eng- 

 lifh gardens at prefent. ^ ■ ' ^ 



The ninth fort is.common in the fouth of France and 

 Italy; the leaves of this refemble thofe of the common 

 Maple, but are of a much thicker fubftance, and not 



-fo large, but are of a fhining' green' colour. They 

 continue in verdure very late in the autumn,' which 

 renders the trees more valuable/ At prefent, this Tore 

 is not common in England. I raifed feveral plants 



- from feeds, fome' df which have for feveral years pro- 

 duced good feeds in the Chelfea garden^ where^from , 



the fcattercd feeds the plants come up annually in * 

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' The tenth fort hkih fome refemblance to the ninth. 

 The' leaves of this fort are of a Mich thinner -tex- 

 ture, "and their foot-ftalks are covered with a foft 

 '^haiiy down,' whereas thofe of the other are fmooth 

 and ftiff: This Ibrt grows naturally in the Levant. 

 Moft of the forts of Mapk which" feme from Aine- 

 -rica, are very impatient of heat while young; their 

 feeds therefore ^fhould. be fown in a Iheltered fituation, 

 for if the plants ai^e expofed to tlie'M fun but one 

 day, when they firft appear, few^of t!fiem will furvivc 

 itV^bvjt efpecially the Sugar Niaple, W v/hich fort I 

 :d&liffantly loft moft of the plants, ' tirf I had the pre- 

 'CaX)tion to plac^e the pots, in which the feeds were 

 fown, entirely in the fliade; for ' hoTdoner are they 

 expofed to the fun, but they are imfn^diately attacked 

 by infe<5ts, v/hich in one day will/devour their feed 

 leaves^ after whic!rthe plants fuddenly drop to the 

 ground. This precaution therefore is* HeceJTary to be 



■ obferved, in raifmg moft of the forts of Maple frbm 

 feeds; - '■' ' f-^'- ov :'; >.i 



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; the Beech tor all ufcs of the turner, particularly diiHes, 

 - cups, trenchers, and ^owls; and when it abounds with 

 knots (as it very often doth), it is highly efteemed by 

 the joiners for ihlayings, &c. and alfo for the light- 

 nefs of the wood, is often emplbyed by thofe that 

 make mufical inftrufncnts^ and for the whitcnefs of its 

 wood, it was form.erly in great requeft for tables, &:c. 



ACETOSA [oi acefoftis, L. eager, four.] The Sorrels 

 are by Dr. Linnasus joined to the genus of Dock, 

 under the title of !Rumex; but as all the known fpe- 

 cies of Sorrel, liave male flowers growing upon dif- 

 tinft roots ft'om the female, therefore by his m.ethod 

 Aould be ranged in his twenty-fecond clafs titled Di- 

 (Eceia^ tlierefore I have taken the liberty to feparate 

 thefe from the Docks, ratlier to preferve their aid tide, 



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