4.98 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Description, §c. Yn its native countries, (the south of France and Italy,) this 
tree attains the height of 30 ft. or 40 ft.; though, in rocky exposed situations, 
it often forms only a large bush. The trunk is covered with a reddish brown 
bark. The leaves are chiefly 3-lobed, with an entire margin: they are dark 
green, and bear a general resemblance to those of A. campéstre, which are about 
the same size, but of a paler green, and 5-lobed. The leaves, in mild seasons, 
remain on during great part of the winter, more especially in France. The 
flowers are produced just before the leaves: they are pendulous, on peduncles 
1 in. or more long, disposed in dichotomous panicles, or corymbs, one from al- 
most every bud, and consist of from 6 to 10 flowers. The flowers are of a pale 
yellow colour, and form a great source of attraction to bees. The tree of this 
species in the London Horticultural Society’s Garden has the branches rather 
ascending, so as to form somewhat a fasciculate head; but in old trees, the 
head is roundish and spreading. 
Geography, History, §c. The tree abounds, in a wild state, in the south of 
France, and also in Spain and Italy, chiefly on rocky exposed situations. It 
is also much planted in the south of France as hedges, on account of the per- 
sistency of the leaves, which remain on during a great part of winter. The tree 
was introduced into England in 1739, and is to be met with in most botanic 
gardens. The wood, which is hard and heavy, is used in France by turners 
and cabinet-makers ; but, in England, the tree may be considered as purely one 
of ornament; and, as such, it well deserves a place in every collection. It is 
easily propagated by seeds or by layers. 
Statistics. The largest tree in the neighbourhood of London is at Kenwood, where, in 35 years, it 
has attained the height of 47 ft.; there are two very handsome trees at Ham House, each nearly 30 ft. 
high: at Kew, 30 years planted, it is 29ft. high; in the Oxford Botanic Garden, 40 years planted, it 
is 25 ft. high ; in Worcestershire, at Croome, 30 years planted, 25 ft. high ; in Staffordshire, at Trent- 
ham, 26 :years planted, 27 ft. high. In Scotland, in the Perth Nursery, 14 years planted, and 
14ft. high. In France, in “the Jardin des Plantes, 139 years planted, and 55 ft. high. In Saxony, at 
Worlitz, 45 years planted, 30 ft. high ; in Austria, at Vienna, in the garden of the University, 40 years 
lanted, and 36ft. high; and at Laxenburg, 35 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In Prussia, in the 
erlin Botanic Garden, 18 ft. high. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden at Munich, 24 years planted, 
and 20 ft. high. 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are ls. 6d. each; a 
Bollwyller, 1 franc 50 cents; at New York, ?. : 
¥ 18. A.campr’strRE L. The common, or Field, Maple. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 1497. ; Hayne, Dend., p. 211.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 595. ; Don’s Mill, 1. p. 649. 
Synonymes. E’/rable champétre, Fr.; kleiner Ahorn, Feld Ahorn, Ger. ‘ 
Engravings. Engl. Bot., t. 304.; Fel. Dan., t. 1288.; Reitter and Abel, Abbild., t. 25.; Willd. 
Abbild., t.213.; our jig. 132, in p. 458.; and the plate of A. campéstre var. austriacum in our 
Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate, with 5-toothed lobes. Racemes erect. 
Wings of fruit much divaricated. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 649.) 
Varieties. There are four forms of this species. 
¥ A. c.1 hebectrpum Dec. Prod., 1. p. 594. The downy-fruited Field 
Maple.— Fruit clothed with velvety pubescence. A. campéstre Wallr. 
in Litt. Tratt. Arch.,i. No.7; A.mdlle Opiz. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 649.) 
¥ A. c.2 foliis variegitis. The variegated-leaved Field Maple.— Next to 
the variegated-leaved variety of A. Psetido-Platanus, this seems the 
handsomest of all the variegated-leaved maples ; the leaves preserving, 
with their variegation, the appearance of health, and the blotches, and 
stripes of white, or whitish yellow, being distinctly marked. 
¥ A.c.3collinum Wallr. in Litt. Dec, Prod., i. p. 594, The hill-inha- 
biting Field Maple.— Fruit smooth. Lobes of leayes obtuse. Flower 
smaller. A. affine and A. macrocarpum Opiz. Native of France. 
(Don’s Mill., i. p. 649.) 
¥ A. c. 4 austriacum Tratt. Arch., i. No.6. The Austrian Field Maple.— 
Fruit smooth. Lobes of leaves somewhat acuminated. Flowers 
larger than those of the species. Native of Austria, Podolia, and 
Tauria. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 649.) This variety is larger in all its parts 
than the original species, and is of much freer growth; the main 
stem rises erect and straight, and sends out its branches regularly on 
