THE OTHER HARDWOODS 159 
plane (4. pseudoplatanus), and the common or 
field maple (4. campestre), can be reckoned among 
the trees of the woodland. But the last named 
is only to be found in and above hedges or 
here and there among the underwood in copses, 
whereas the other two larger species not only 
thrive in the undergrowth, but form valuable 
timber trees, especially when grown along with 
beech in rather moist localities. 
In Evelyn’s time maple and sycamore timbers 
were in good repute. ‘The Timber (of Maple) 
is far superiour to Beech for all uses of the Turner, 
who seeks it for Dishes, Trays, Trenchers, €Fc., as 
the Yoyner for Tables, Inlayings, and for the 
delicateness of the grain when the kmurs and 
nodosities are rarely diapered, which does much 
advance its price: Also for the lightness (under 
the name yer) imploy’d often by those who 
make Musical-instruments. But there is a larger 
sort, which we call the Sycamor . . . is excellent 
for Cart and Plow-timber, being light, tough, 
and not much inferior to 4sh it self.’ By the 
end of last century, and far into the present one, 
the fashion had changed; for there is a fashion 
in the use of different woods, and it is not 
