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VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



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Sugar Maple — Acer saccharinum. 



settle upon it, it is speedily attacked by the worm. 

 When kept dry, and free from this attack, it will last 

 a considerable time ; but exposed to humidity, it is 

 one of the most perishable of trees. 



The maple forms a very pleasing; shade, from the 

 largeness of its leaves ; but the twisting of its branches 

 is injurious to its picturesque effect. The constant 

 excoriation of its bark produces a variety of hues, 

 which give colour to any landscape in which the tree 

 is introduced. 



The sugar maple grows plentifully in the United 

 States ; and from the sap of it the inhabitants make 

 a considerable quantity of sugar, which, though in- 

 ferior both in the grain and in strength to that which 

 is produced by the cane, granulates better than 

 that of the beet-root, or any other vegetable, the 

 cane excepted. The sugar maple is a smaller tree 

 than the maple of this country'; and it is not much in 

 repute as timber, althovigh from its abundance it is a 

 good deal used in America, — the wood for donvestie 



