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7. Acer; flatanoides.Munt. The 

 I^lorway Maple, with Plane Tree 

 Leaves. 



8. Acer 5 platamules, folm ele- 

 gcinter variegatis. The Itrip'd A^(7r- 

 way Maple. 



Thefe Trees are eafii)- propagated 

 by lb wing the Seeds, foon after they 

 are ripe, in an open Bed of common 

 Earth, covering them about half an 

 Inch thick with light fandy Earth 3 

 the Spring following they will 

 appear above the Ground, and if 

 kept clear from Weeds, will grow 

 above a Foot high the fir ft Summer : 

 The Michaelmas following, ( if they 

 are thick in the Seed-bed ) you may 

 rake out a Part of them, and trani- 

 plant into a Nurlcry in Rows at 

 three Feet Diftance, and two Feet 

 afunder in the Rows ; in v»/hich 

 Place they may remain three or four 

 Years, when they would be large 

 enougli to plant out for good. 



The firft Sort is very proper to 

 make Plantations near the Sea, or to 

 fhelter fuch Plantations of Trees, as 

 are too near fituated thereto : This 

 Tree thrives, and refiils\the Spray, 

 which is ufually blown from the Sea, 

 better than moft other Trees do. 

 The variegated Sort is alio raifed 

 from Seeds of the fame Kind : Moil 

 of the Plants fo raifed will be as finely 

 ftriped as the old Plant, from 

 whence the Seeds were taken, 

 which is not common to many other 

 variegated Plants. 



The common Maple is too well 

 known to need any particular Ac- 

 count, it being a very common 

 Tree in Hedge- rows in moft Parts of 

 :Englaml ; it is raifed in the fame 

 Manner with the former. 



The Virginian flowering Maple 

 was raifed from Seeds, which were 

 brought from Virginia many Years 

 fince by Mr. John Tradefcant, in his 

 Garden :ix South Lambeth n^iVaux- 



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hall, and fince in the Gardens of the 

 Bilhop of London at Fulham, where 

 it has flowered for feveral Years, and 

 produces ripe Seeds, from whence 

 feveral Trees have been raifed : It 

 may be alfo propagated by laying 

 down the young Branches early in 

 the Spring, giving them a little Slit 

 at a Joint, by which means they 

 will take fufficicnt Root by that 

 time twelve Months, to be tranf^ 

 planted out ; They require a Situ- 

 ation a little defended from the 

 North Eaft Winds, efpecially while 

 young. This Tree commonly 

 flowers in the Beginning of April, 

 and the Seeds are ripe in five or fix 

 Weeks after j at which Time they 

 fliouid be fowed ; for they are very 

 apt to perilh, if kept long out of tlie 

 Ground . 



The other flov;(ering Maple was 

 fent from America to Sir Charles 

 M'^ager, and flour i flies in his curious 

 Garden at Parfon's-Green near Ful- 

 ha?n : The Flowers of this Kind 

 come out in very large Clufters, and 

 furround the younger Branches, lo 

 as to appear at a fmall Diftance 

 covered therev/ith. This Tree is at 

 prefent very rare in Europe, but as it 

 produces ripe Seeds in England, fo it 

 is to be hoped it will in Tmie be 

 more common in the Gardens of the 

 Curious. 



The Afli-leav'd Maple is a very 

 ftrong ftiooting Tree, and is in Vir- 

 ginia one of the largeft Trees of this 

 Kind : It muft be planted in Places 

 not too much expofed to violent 

 Winds, it being fubjedl to fplit 

 therewith. This Tree ripens Seeds 

 very well in England, by which 

 Means it is eafily propagated, or by 

 laying down the Branches, as di- 

 redted for the flowering Maple. 



The Norway Maple grows with us 

 to a very large Size, equalling the 

 greater Maple for Bulk, and I be- 

 lieve 



