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in habit, hue, foliage, or fruit, as specimens. 

 One may prove a valuable variety. The 

 fruit is almost green, and comparatively in 

 significant ; while the foliage appears a week 

 earlier than any of the others. The best 

 Bartram specimen is forty-seven feet high 

 and four feet in circumference. In favorable 

 situations it doubles this. 



It is propagated from seed, like No. 1. 



8. A. SACCHARINUM, Linnceus. Leaves 

 palmate, 3, 5-parted, smooth; lobes sharp, 

 with coarse teeth. Flowers in drooping 

 corymbs, on hairy or downy stalks. Sugar- 

 maple. Canada to Pennsylvania. 



This tree has none of the graceful airiness 

 of the silver-maple, or the rusticity of branches 

 as the Norway ; but excels them both in no 

 bility of appearance. It has a stiff, regularly 

 round head, generally in over proportion to 

 the size of its trunk. It is much admired on 

 account of the rich golden-yellow hue, often 

 tinged with red, with which it is clothed in 

 the fall. The finest specimen at Bartram is 

 eighty-two feet high and five feet five inches 

 in circumference. 



Like most of the maples it is of easy culti- 



