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grow faster, and arrive at greater heights, than 

 those from lavers : but they do not in general 

 produce sueh qauntiticsof flowers; which makes 

 the latter method more eligible for those who 

 want these plants for low shrubbery uses. In 

 these cases they should always have four or five 

 years growth before they arc finally jjlanted out. 



It is, however advised by son\e, that the seeds 

 of the Common and Norway Maples should not 

 be put into the soil immediately after becoming 

 ripe; but be dried and preserved in sand till Fe- 

 bruary or March, as the season may prove favour- 

 able; when they may be sosved in drills or beds 

 eighteen inches broad, with alleys the same width, 

 and covered three-quarters of an inch thick with 

 mold. In the following February, or March, the 

 alleys should be dug, and the roots of the plants 

 cut about live inches under ground, which may 

 be easily performed by means of a sharp spade, 

 drawing the plants out where they stand too thick. 

 These maybe replanted in any good mellow soil, 

 in rows eighteen inches asunder, and eight or 

 nine inciies from each other in the rows. In 

 ■October, when the plants in general \^ ill be about 

 two feet high, raise both the seedlings and those 

 that were transplanted, shorten their tap-roots, 

 cutting off any cross lateral branches, and remove 

 them Tnto rows two feet and a half apart, and 

 fifteen inches distant in them, in order that they 

 may continue for a year or two. Remove them 

 again at the same season the succeeding year, 

 and plant them in rows five feet asunder, and two 

 and a half from each other, that they may con- 

 tinue four years. These will now be from twelve 

 to fifteen feet high ; and if required of a still 

 larger size, they may be removed, and planted 

 again eight or ten feet asunder ; when any time 

 after two, and not exceeding eight or ten years, 

 thev may be finally planted out where they are to 

 remain. The use of removing these trees fre- 

 quently when young is, that they are apt naturally 

 to STOW with tap roots ; which this management 

 prevents, and makes the plants root better, and 

 become more easy in their growth when trans- 

 planted at a large size. 



Though all the species of this genus are capable 

 of being propagated by layers, it is never prac- 

 tised for the Common Maple. In this method the 

 young slwots may be laid down at any time in 

 the autumn, winter, or early in the spring; but 

 the first is probably the best. By the same time 

 in the following year they will have struck root, 

 and have become good plants ; when the strongest 

 jnay be set out in the places where they are to 

 j-emain ; while the weakest may be planted in 

 the nursery, in the same manner as the seedlings, 

 for a year or two, in order to gain strength. 



In propagating by cuttings, though all these 

 trees are capable of it, it is a uielhod chiefly 



practised on the Ash-leaved and Norway Maples, 

 as they take root this way more readily. The 

 cuttings should be taken from the bottom parts 

 of the last year's shoots early in October, and be 

 planted in rows in a moist shady place. In the 

 spring and summer following they should be wa- 

 tered as often as dry weather makes it necessarv, 

 and be kept perfectly clean from weeds. In the 

 autumn they will be fit to remove into the nur- 

 sery- ; though, if the cuttings are not planted 

 too close, they may remain in their situations for 

 a year or two longer, and then be finally set out, 

 without the trouble of being previously planted 

 in the nurser)-. These trees are also to be raised 

 b)' budding, grafting, and inarcliing. But as the 

 other methods are nioiL- eligible, these are seldom 

 or ever practised, except for the variegated sorts 

 and the large broad-leaved kind. The latter is 

 indeed to be continued in no other way than by 

 budding it on stocks of the Common Sycamore ; 

 as the seeds, when sown, afford only the Common 

 Sycamore. But the seeds of the variegated kinds 

 produce varieg.itcd plants ; which renders the 

 propagation of these sorts very expeditious, where 

 plenty of seed can be had. 



But where it is not to be obtained, in order to 

 propagate these varieties, recourse must be had to 

 budding; in performing which, some plants of the 

 CommonSvcamore, one year old, are to be taken 

 out of the seed-bed and set in the nursery in rows 

 a vard asunder, and the plants about a foot and 

 a iialf distant from each other in the rows. The 

 ground must be kept clean from weeds all sum- 

 mer, and be dug, or, as the gardeners call it, 

 tinntd in, in the winter; and the summer fol- 

 lowing the stocks will be of a proper size to receive 

 the buds, which should be taken from the most 

 beautifully striped branches. The best time for 

 this operation is about August ; as, if it is done 

 earlier, the buds will shoot the same summer, 

 and when this happens a hard winter is apt to 

 kill them. Having budded the stocks the middle 

 or latter end of August, the eyes, or buds, being 

 inserted on that side of the stock which faces the 

 north, towards the beginning of October the bass 

 by which it was tied may be removed, as it will 

 begin to pinch and confine the bark, as well as 

 the bud, too much. In the spring, just before 

 the sap begins to rise, or the trees begin to shoot, 

 the head of the stock should be cut off in a sloping 

 direction just above the inserted bud: by these 

 means, and that of constantly rubbing off" such 

 shoots as come from the stocks, the shoot from 

 the inserted bud will be rendered more strong 

 and healthy. The trees thus raised may remain 

 in their situations for a year or two longer, or be 

 transplanted into the places where they are in- 

 tended for, in the autumn or spring following; 

 care being constantly taken to keep the land well 



