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which eat the Leaves full of Holes, 

 and render them very unfightly. 



The Norway Maple has a milky 

 marp Juice, fo that few Infedts care 

 to prey thereon ; by which means 

 the Leaves are feldom eaten or de- 

 faced. This Tree is alfo raifed by 

 Seeds, of which it affords great Quan- 

 tities ; which rife and grow equally 

 as well as the common Sort 



It may alfo be propagated by Cut- 

 tings, which, if planted in the Au- 

 tumn, foon after the Leaves are 

 fallen, will take Root as well as the 

 common Willow: fo that this being 

 the moil expeditious Method of pro- 

 pagating this Tree, it is chiefly pra- 

 difed by fkilful Perfons. 



The variegated Kind is propa- 

 gated by inoculating a Bud of the 

 itrip'd Kind into one of the plain 

 Sort, though I am not at prefent 

 fure whether it will take upon any 

 other Sort of Maple, not having 

 made the Experiment ; but I believe 

 it can fcarce fail. Moft, if not all 

 the other Sorts of Maples, take very 

 well upon each other. 



There is another Sort of Maple, 

 which is very common in Virginia, 

 2nd is known by the Name of the 

 Sugar Maple ; from which Tree the 

 Inhabitants of that Country make a 

 very good Sort of Sugar, and in 

 large Quantities ; though I am of 

 Opinion, that the People make Su- 

 gar from more than one Sort of 

 Maple. Mr. Ray, and Dr. Lifter, 

 prepared a tolerable good Sort of 

 Sugar from our greater Maple, by 

 tapping fome of the Trees in their 

 bleeding Seafon ; and 1 have ob- 

 ferved, upon cutting off a Branch 

 of the afh-leav'd Maple in Febru- 

 ary, a great Quantity of a very fweet 

 juice hath fiow'd out for feveral 

 Days together. 



This Sort of Maple is fo like the 

 ■Norwaj Maple in Leaf, as fcarce io 



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be diftingulfhed from it ; and is 

 equally hardy, but doth not grow 

 fo fait: the young Plants, when firif. 

 raifed from Seeds, aTe very fubjecx 

 to be attacked by Infeifls, which, if 

 not deftroyed foon, will eat up the 

 Plants : and thefe Infefts are in 

 greater Plenty upon the Plants when 

 they are expofed to the Sun, than in 

 a fhady Situation. 



The ninth Sort of Maple is very 

 common in molt Parts of Italy, but 

 particularly about Rome, where it 

 is one of the laigeft Trees of that 

 Country, and is efteemed for the 

 Size of the Leaves, which are large, 

 affording a great Shade ; fo thai 

 thefe Trees are frequently planted 

 by the Sides of Roads, and near Ha- 

 bitations. In England this Tree is 

 very rarely to be met with, although 

 it is hardy enough to bear the open 

 A\v ; but as the Seeds of this Tree 

 have not been brought over to Eng- 

 land till lately, there are no large 

 Plants in the Englijk Gardens at pre- 

 fent. 



The tenth Sort is very common 

 about Montpelier, and the South Parts 

 of France ; but is at prefent very rare 

 in the Engli/k Gardens. 



The eleventh and twelfth Sorts 

 grow common in the Iflands of the 

 Archipelago, from whence Doctor 

 Tournefcrt fent their Seeds to the 

 Royal Garden at Paris, where they 

 are now growing ; but thefe are 

 very rare in England. Thefe three 

 Sorts may be propagated by Seeds, 

 in the fame manner as is directed for 

 the other Kinds, and are all hardy 

 enough to bear the open Air in Eng- 

 land. 



The Timber of the common Ma- 

 ple is far fuperior to the Beech for 

 all Ufes of the Turner, particularly 

 Diflie c , Cup?,Trenchers, and Bowls ; 

 and when it abounds with Knots (as 

 it very often doth), it is highly 

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