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vation, doing well in any situation, except 

 in the dry and confined atmosphere of a 

 densely built city; and in most soils; but 

 preferring a loose loam or one on a sub 

 stratum of clay. 



It is propagated as No. 1. 



9. A. STRIATUM, Lambert. Leaves 3-lobed, 

 rough, slightly cordate at the base, sharply 

 and finely serrate ; lobes acute. Striped 

 barked maple. Moosewood. From Canada 

 to Carolina. 



Few trees show so much the effect of dif 

 ferent circumstances as this. In England, 

 when grafted on the Sycamore, it makes a 

 tree three or four times larger than when in 

 its native places of growth. At Bartram 

 there is a young specimen on its own roots, 

 growing in a moist shady situation upon a 

 substratum of mica which is about thirty feet 

 high and sixteen inches in circumference ; 

 while in another part of the grounds there is 

 another specimen growing in dry gravel, 

 under the shade of a Norway spruce, which, 

 though planted many years, has never arisen 

 above the character of a shrub, perfecting its 

 seeds every year. In the latter state, I pre- 

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