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Maple are kept out of the Ground 

 till Spring, they rarely come up the 

 fame Year, and many times do not 

 grow ; fo that the fureft Method of 

 raifing them is, to fow the Seeds as 

 foon as poffibie when they are ripe; 

 and if the Seeds are to be tranfport- 

 ed to any Dittance, it will be pro- 

 per to put them up in Sand, where- 

 by their growing Quality will be 

 preferved. 



The firft Sort is very proper to 

 make Plantations near the Sea, or 

 to fhelter fuch Plantations of Trees 

 as are too nearly fituaced thereto. 

 This Tree thrives, and refills the 

 Spray which is ufually blown from 

 the Sea, better than mo ft other Trees 

 do. The variegated Sort is aifo railed 

 from Seeds of the fame Kind : moit 

 of the Plants fo railed will be as 

 finely ilriped as the old Plant from 

 whence the Seeds were taken, which 

 is not common to many other vari- 

 egated Plants. 



The common Maple is too well 

 known to need any particular Ac- 

 count, it being a very common Tree 

 in Hedge-rows in mod Parts of Eng- 

 land : it is raifed in the fame man- 

 ner with the former. 



The Virginian flowering Maple 

 was raifed from Seeds, which were 

 brought from Virginia many Years 

 fince by Mr. John Tradsfcznt, in his 

 Garden at South-Lambeth, near Vaux- 

 hall\ and fince* in the Gardens of 

 the Bifhop of London at Fu/ham, 

 where it has flcwer'd for feveral 

 Years, ar.d produces ripe Seeds, from 

 whence feveral Trees have been 

 raifed : it may be alio propagated 

 by laying down the young Branches 

 early in the Spring, giving them a 

 little Slit at a Joint ; by which means 

 they will have taken fufiicient Root 

 by that time Twelve months, to be 

 tranfplanted oat. They require a 

 Situation *a litwlc defended from the 



North -caft Winds, efpecially while 

 young : and it delights in a moill 

 light Soil, in which it will thrive 

 much better than in dry Ground, 

 and will produce more Flowers, and 

 better Seeds. This Tree commonly 

 flowers in the Beginning of April, 

 and the Seeds are ripe in fix Weeks, 

 or two Months after; at which time 

 they mould be fown ; for they are 

 very apt to perilh, if kept long out 

 of the Ground. 



The other flowering Maple was 

 fent from America to Sir Charles 

 Wager, and flouriflied feveral Years 

 in his curious Garden at Parfons' 

 Green near Fulham. The Flowers 

 of this Kind come out in very large 

 Clulters, and furround the younger 

 Branches, fo as to appear at a fmall 

 Diftance covered with them. This 

 Tree is now become pretty plenty 

 in fome of the curious Nurferies 

 near London, fo that the former Sort 

 is not fo much efteemed, bting lefs 

 beautiful. 



The afti-ltav'd Maple is a very 

 ftrong- mooting Tree, and is in Vir- 

 ginia one of the largeft Trees of 

 this Kind. It mud be planted in 

 Places not too much expofed to vio- 

 lent Winds, it being fubjeel to fplit 

 therewith. This Tree ripens Seeds 

 very well in En la?id, by which 

 means it is eafily propagated, or by 

 laying down the Branches (as direct- 

 ed for the flowering Maple j. 



The Norway Maple grows with 

 us to a very large Size, equalling 

 the other Maple for Bulk; and, I be- 

 lieve, will anfwer the fame Purpofe, 

 for flickering Plantations near the 

 Sea; and is by far the handfomer 

 Tree near an Habitation : for the 

 grea'er Maple is very fubjeel to ex- 

 ude a fweet clammy Juice from the 

 Pores of the Leaves, which lodges 

 upon the Surfaces thereof, and there- 

 by entice- raft Quantities of Infers, 



which. 



