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New Principles of Gardening. 
SE Gt. eee 
Of the Maple; us Culture, &c. 
HE Maple-Tree is very proper to be cultivated in our 
Gardens, in regard to its being a very free Grower, 
and thickens the Quarters of W/derneffes, Coppices, 
Woods, &c. when train’d up as a Shrub or Bufb, and notas a 
Standard Tree- This Plant is very fubject to receive a Sort of 
Honey-Dew on its Leaves, which being wafh’d off by Rains, 
is prejudicial to all fuch Plants as it fallson; therefore for 
that Reafon ’tis beft tocut them down near to the Ground, that 
they may break into divers Branches, and make a Thicket from 
the Bottom. | 
Or if they are train’d up in Hedges, they make a very hand- 
fome Appearance, and will thrive under the Drip of other Trees 
although others cannot endure long under the Drip of them. 
The Soil this Tree delights in, is a dry Ground, or Bank; ’tis 
increas’d by Seed, Suckers, or Layers; and its Seed lies a Year 
in the Ground before it comes up; therefore ’tis beft to keep it 
~the firft Year in Sand, as the Afh, Sc. 
Re/peét is likewife to the Maple due, 
Whofe Leaves, both in their Figure, and thew Hue, 
Are like the Linden ; but it ately grows, 
And horrid Wrinkles all tts Trunk iclofe. 
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