FOREST TREES. 139 



THE common Maple will thrive in all 

 poor dry grounds, even where there is but 

 little earth : it is a wood of no great 

 value, and feldom grows to a great iize, 

 and is not fit to make plantations, neither 

 for profit nor beauty ; it is very good for 

 to convert into under-wood, as it moots 

 very ftrong and very quick from the ilools 

 after the firfl cutting, 



MAPLE (the Norway) is a good tree, 

 the leaves are handfbme, and make a fine 

 ihade; the wood is much of the fame 

 nature with the Sycamore, and will thrive 

 in all the fame forts of foils. It is a veiy 

 good tree to plant for ufe. 



THE Mountain Aih is a very handlbme 

 tree ; the leaves, flowers, and fruit are all 

 very pretty: the tree grows to a good 

 frze, but the wood is of no great value. 

 The leaves and flowers make a very beau- 

 fcifni appearance in fummer, and in the 

 v autumn, when the fruit is ripe, they are 

 pf a fine red colour. If three or four are 

 6 planted 



