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three other kinds I have not yet noticed; lo wit, the true 

 Oriental Plane, the Oriental Plane with the Maple 

 Leaf, and the Occidental or I'irginian Plane. The 

 Orientals are propagated either from feeds or by layers. 

 The firft method I (Tiould chufe, though the latter will 

 alfo fuccecd, but will never make fuch large trees. The 

 Virginian or Occidental Plane, which isneareil of kin to 

 the Acer mo.jus^ J^^f'^ niultis phitjnus, will grow extreme- 

 ly well by cuttings planted in the month of Oiloher, and 

 I have feen very large poils ot them fharpened at the 

 end for the ftrongefl: fupporters of efpaliers, and conti- 

 nue longer when put in the ground in good plight, than 

 any timber I fee ufed for that purpofe. 



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 rhe Maple. 



TPIE feeds of this tree, being fown in great nurfe- 

 ries, have often produced plants with flriped 

 leaves, and have retained their variegation very well, 

 which is not common in other variegated plants, except 

 the Lotus or Birds Trefoil^ the feeds of which, when 

 gathered from variegated plants, come up always varie- 

 gated. 



We have two forts of the flowering Firgijiian Acers, 

 but that fort, with the largefl: red flowers about the 

 branches is preferable, chiefly for the multiplicity of its 

 flowers. The Norway Maple grows to a very large tree 

 in this country, and is raifed by feeds, which it affords 

 in great quantities, and requires the fame culture with 

 the common Maple, falfely called the Plane Tree, and 

 is very proper for inclofing plantations of young trees, or 

 for fheltering gentlemens leats from the high winds. 



The Chefnut. 



Till S is one of the largefl: and prctticfl: trees, when 

 rightly managed, that grows. In Britain it ar- 

 rives at a vaft bulk, efpecially the fouthern parts thereof, 

 H h 3 as 



