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A small plantation of sugar maple was made a year or two ago 
on the Earl of Plymouth’s estate at St. Fagans in South Wales, 
but it is yet too young for an opinion to be formed as to how it is 
likely to succeed. 
Marie (dcer rubrum, L.).—This is another 
d 
the lake at Whitton Park, Hounslow. 
ough, “ American Woods,” iii., pp. 15-16, describes the wood 
as moderately heavy, hard and elastic, close-grained, compact and 
taking a very smooth polish. He adds that it is valuable for the 
manufacture of shovels, bowls, and small wooden-ware generally. 
The curly grain peculiar to the wood of A. saccharinum is some- 
times developed in this wood also and such examples are esteemed 
for cabinet making. According to Hough, the bark also is of 
importance, for, by boiling it with sulphate of iron and alum a bluish- 
black dye is obtained. Boiled with alum alone the bark is said to 
produce a lasting cinnamon-colour dye. 
ade in France, where the trees were 
on a large scale by Michaux, 100 years ago, have been 
