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feet wide, according to the common pra6lice, and, from tlic feed- 

 bed, at two years old, planted in the nurfery for two years more, 

 in lines, two feet afunder, when they will be fit for the purpofes 

 dehgned. This is a tree of humble .growth, fcldom riling above 

 twenty-five or thirty feet high, and therefore not generally ufed 

 in large plantations of timber trees, but is very common in the 

 hedge-rows over moil parts in England. 



The large flrip'd Maple, is commonly propagated by budding 

 it on the plain Idnd, and may alfo be railed from feeds, many of 

 which will be as finely variegated as the trees that produced 

 them; a circumftance very uncommon in other variegated plants, 

 which rarely produce their own likenefs. 



The ftrip'd Norway Maple, is alfo propagated by budding it 

 on the plain kind, and is a finely variegated tree, tho' I cannot 

 fay that the feeds of them will produce variegated plants, never 

 having been able certainly to procure them of the true kind, tho' 

 I have frequently fown them as fuch inefFe(5lually. 



These trees, the firft, fecond, and fixth forts particularly, 

 will profper in very indifferent coarfe land, but moft affects that 

 which is deep and moift, tho' not wet or fliff ; in fuch places 

 they will make furprifing progrefs, and in a few years become 

 llately trees. The third, fourth, and fifth forts, delight mofl in 

 a firm dry mould. 



The various ufes of this tree to the turner, for diflies, drink- 

 ing-cups, bowls, and trenchers, and to the joiner for tables, (6-t. 

 are too generally known to require a particular relation here ; but 

 that of the common leffer Maple, is much the beft Avood of all 

 the kinds we yet know, 



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