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fortnight, and sometimes three weeks, before the latter in 

 the same climate and soil. In removal, the late sort has 

 some advantage over the early, which usually happens with 

 other trees. It is therefore important for the trans- 

 planter to discriminate between the two sorts, and to mark 

 them out in the foregoing spring; so that he may have it 

 in his power to place them in different situations, and 

 apply them to different purposes. 



THE NOEWAY MAPLE. 



This elegant tree {Acer platanoides) is a native of 

 Norway, as its name imports. It is extremely hardy, and 

 attains a great size in Britain. It is esteemed by some 

 a handsomer tree than the greater Maple or Sycamore, 

 and seems applicable to almost every purpose to which 

 the latter is adapted, whether as a lawn tree or as under- 

 wood. The top also is not less spreading, and the leaves 

 far more beautiful ; the latter being of smooth and shin- 

 ing green, like those of the Occidental Platanus, and nearly 

 of equal magnitude. In autumn, they assume a bright 

 gold colour, and form with the Oak one of the finest 

 oppositions of tint of which the forest can boast. The 

 flowers are likewise extremely beautiful. They come out 

 early in the spring, are of a fine yellow colour, and show 

 themselves to advantage before the appearance of the 

 leaves. In point of picturesque beauty, th€ Norway 

 Maple is not inferior either to the Sycamore or any of 

 the Plane tribe. 



I entertain no doubt that this tree, from what I have 

 seen of it, would transplant at any size, and with as great 

 facility and success as the Sycamore ; and it would form 



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