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and statelier. Of rapid growth, and only slightly less adapted to soils 

 than the former, it is an excellent shade tree, and is especially desirable 



near houses. 



There are three or four other small exotic maples deserving atten- 

 tion: 



Fig. 92. — Tartarian Maple. Acer Ginnala Ma.x. 



A. campestre Linn. (148), known as English Maple, but distributed 

 through all northern Europe, a tree rarely over thirty feet, with small 

 roundish-lobed, attractive leaf, the foliage remaining green also in 

 winter. Its very formal habit, making a very stocky, round head, fits 

 it especially for planting on knolls, at comers, near a bend in the road, 

 as the center of low shrubbery, or in formal work. It is of slow growth, 

 perfectly hardy and adaptive to soils. 



A. Monsspessidanum Linn. (149), from the Mediterranean, very 

 similar to the English maple, is fit only for southern planting. 



