Acer 
eriocarpum 
Acer 
rubrum 
80 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
ACERAGE. 
others in various parts of the grounds, in par- 
ticular, a very tall one between the stables and 
east lodge. Seems to thrive as well here as 
Acer platanoides; is of rapid growth and forms 
a tree of great beauty, with foliage of a lighter 
and more feathery character than that of the 
other maples. I have not been able to find fruit 
on any of the trees here, but the tree in the 
arboretum bears female flowers in March or April. 
The leaves with us remain later on the tree than 
in Acer rubrum and saccharinum; but they 
do not turn red, only a pale yellow, the principal 
ribs becoming red. 
In almost all the trees of this kind which we 
have here, the trunk divides at a very small height 
from the ground, into two or three trunks, which 
are of about equal size, and rise equally erect. 
The leaves when they first expand (in May), 
are of a soft and delicate tawny red _ colour, 
giving at that season a peculiar and_ beautiful 
appearance to the whole tree. 
ACER RUBRUM. 
Loudon, v. 1, 424. 
One tree in the arboretum, another of good 
size in the shrubbery beyond the arboretum 
(‘“Sorcerer’s’”* paddock); two or three on the 
* This name given because a famous race-horse of Sir Thomas Charles 
Bunbury was buried here. He was black, and I have been told that many 
of the horses belonging to the ‘* Blues’ regiment were his descendants. 
(PF. jiea 
