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to permit any effort to produce this article in suffi- 

 cient quantity, and of suitable quality, for purposes 

 of commerce, it is annually made to some extent for 

 home use, but not enough for the " sweetening " 

 required even in the Mountains. It is only in the 

 colder regions that the tree can be used for this pur- 

 pose. In our low country sugar cannot be made 

 from it. 



4. Striped Maple. (A. Pennsylvanicum, Linn.) 

 — This grows in the colder parts of the country from 

 Canada to Georgia, and is known under the names, 

 besides the one already given, of Mooseivood and 

 Striped Dogwood. In North Carolina it is confined 

 to the Mountains. It is but a shrub, rarely over 10 

 feet high. The bark is smooth and green, with 

 longitudinal dark stripes, which distinguishes it at all 

 seasons, and makes it an object of some curiosity and 

 interest in shrubberies. The fruit is like that of 

 other Maples, and of greenish color. 



5. Mountain Maple. (A. spicatum. Lam.) — 

 This has nearly the same range in the country with 

 the preceding one. In this State it is found only in 

 the Mountains, and is also a shrub 6 to 10 feet high. 

 From its insignificance it does not seem to have 

 attracted sufficient attention to acquire a popular 

 name; but is known farther north by the above, and 

 also as Loiv Maple. Europeans, who have paid far 

 more attention than ourselves to the uses and capaci- 

 ties of our forest productions, have ascertained that 

 this and the Striped Maple acquire double their 



