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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 it's 

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



