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and statelier. Of rapid growth, and only slightly less adapted to soils 
than the former, it is an excellent shade tree, and is especially desirable 
near houses. 
There are three or four other small exotic maples deserving atten- 
tion: 
Fic. 92.-~ Tartarian Maple. Acer Ginnala Max. 
A. campestre Linn. (148), known as English Maple, but distributed 
through all northern Europe,.a tree rarely over thirty feet, with small 
roundish-lobed, attractive leaf, the foliage remaining green also in 
winter. Its very formal habit, making a very stocky, round head, fits 
it especially for planting on knolls, at corners, near a bend in the road, 
as the center of low shrubbery, or in formal work. It is of slow growth, 
perfectly hardy and adaptive to soils. 
A. Monsspessulanum Linn. (149), from the Mediterranean, very 
similar to the English maple, is fit only for southern planting. 
