ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
Nos. 162, 103.] . JUNE and JULY. (1895. 
CCCCLIX.—MAPLE SUGAR. 
(Acer saccharinum, Wangh.) 
‘Valuable sugar, and syrup, are yt in the United States Tu 
anada from the stem of the Sugar Maple. Sa stems are bored 
ind 
uoce tract of country and the produce is used locally. Little, if 
any of it, comes into external commerce. Hitherto it has been difficult 
our rte (or sycamore), is smooth, the: wings vary from half an inch to 
rather more than an ineh in length and are broad, thin, iid usual] 
ex 
Sire the Alleghany Mountains to Georgia and Florida; westward 
erie yd the St. Lawrence to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, 
rn 
this us ‘stitched to England in 1735. The'timber is more 
puc ss and more gener erall ‘used than that of any — 
maple. Accidental forms of the wood, known as * curled: — " 
due to the abundance of the s — nila uii is uns rre in 
The nutritious and sugary propeities of the sap of - coma were 
known to the Indians before the om settlement t of Eur 
per Tt has the appearance of raw cane-sugar, except that it is rather 
darker in colour, and it loses in refining the pe flavour for which it 
ed. It often contains a considerable per-centage of malate of 
tance that feels like sand. in che, mouth, and seems; to 
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87550. 1375.—6/95. Wt. 308. 
