738 THE FOREST TREE OCULTURIST. 
Maple. The Norway Maple is of slow growth while 
young, but grows quite rapidly after it is five or six years 
old. It is a very handsome tree, and well worthy of. cul- 
tivation. Its wood is hard and fine-grained. 
AcER Psrvupo-Piatanus (Sycamore Maple).—A rather 
coarse-growing tree with large dark-green leaves. It is 
not a handsome tree, but is a rapid grower; its wood is 
hard and moderately fine-grained, and is valuable. Seeds 
are produced in long pendulous racemes; ripe in autumn, 
and require same treatment as others ripening at that time. 
Seeds of this and the preceding species can be procured 
from trees growing in this country. There are many other 
species of Maples, but those mentioned are the most com- 
mon, and probably the most valuable for timber trees. 
Maples, with but few exceptions, are readily worked one 
upon the other by budding. The Norway Maple grows 
more rapidly when budded upon the Sugar Maple. The 
Silver and Red Maple will also grow from cuttings, if 
planted early in spring in moist soil; the two or three 
year-old wood roots more freely than the one-year-old. 
Adscutus. (Horse Chestnut.) 
There are none of this genus worthy of much. atten- 
tion, except for ornamental purposes. The trees are most- 
ly of small size, and the wood of little value, Alsculus 
Hippocastanum, the common Horse Chestnut, is a native 
of Asia, but has been extensively planted in this country. 
Its beautiful flowers and the handsome foliage makes it 
generally admired. It grows to quite a large tree; leaves 
digitate, divided into seven leaflets. 
