48 FOREST TREES. 
Maple, are used in veneering articles of furniture, 
and are highly esteemed. 
The use'of the sap of the Sugar Maple in the pro- 
duction of sugar is well known. In Vermont, New 
Hampshire, and other parts of the country, consider- 
able quantities are annually manufactured, some indi- 
viduals making, in a favorable season, three thousand 
or four thousand pounds. It is sold at a higher price 
than sugar made from the cane. Syrup made from 
the sap of the Maple is esteemed superior to any 
other. 
The seeds of the Sugar Maple ripen about the first 
of October. Like those of other Maples, they are in 
pairs, united at the base, and furnished with a wing. 
Their external appearance is precisely similar; but, 
upon examination, I have uniformly found one of 
each pair abortive and worthless. The trees rarely, 
if ever, produce seed two years in succession. The 
seed may be sown in autumn, or mixed with sand 
and kept damp——never wet—through the winter in a 
place cool enough to prevent vegetation. It should 
he sown early in spring, in drills as directed for the 
Silver Maple. The young plants grow slowly for the 
first two or three years, and may remain two years in 
the seed-bed. 
The Sugar Maple should never be planted on low 
flat lands, with a retentive subsoil, unless it is under- 
drained.. It will not live where the soil is saturated 
with water during the growing season. In such situa- 
tions a single wet summer is sufficient to destroy it. 
In the very wet summer of 1844, I lost a: number of 
