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and make tliem unfiglitly ; belides, the leaves falling early in 

 autumn, turn to mucilage, and putrify with the firft moifhure 

 of the feafon, /o as they contaminate and fpoil the walks, ren- 

 dering them both difagreeable, and expenfive to clean. 



I HAVE not had the opportunity of planting the Norway Maple 

 mear the fea, but, in many other fituations, I have planted them 

 in concert with the common large fort, and found them equally 

 hardy, and of as free a growth : They are a much handfomer 

 tree^ and their leaves have not the noxious qualities of the other. 



The third, fourth, and fifth forts, are pretty trees, and proper 

 for the wildernefs, and other ornamental plantations, but fhould 

 not be planted fmgly, or in cold expofed fituations in this cli- 

 mate, as they commonly fuffer much, both by the violence of 

 the weflerly, and coldnefs of the north and eaft winds. They 

 may be propag^lted from feeds as the former kinds, when thefe 

 can be procured ; but as they are not fo generally to be had in 

 this country, they fucceed readily by layers, which, laid down 

 in autumn or fpring, will be fiilEciently rooted in twelve months. 



Having carefully raifed your layei's, and dreffed them as 

 directed for others, plant them out in a quarter of good v^eii- 

 prepared ground, in rows, three feet afunder, and a foot diftance 

 in the TO\Y ; let them be watered, to fettle the earth about their 

 roots, and remain here two or three years, from whence remove 

 them to where they are meant to remain for good. 



Th e common or lelTer Maple, which produces abundance of 

 l^eds with us, is eafiiy propagated from them, in the fame way 

 as the larger kind, and may be fbvsm in beds three and a half 



