Maple. 



the other row. The IMaple would not be of much value as 

 poles ; but young trees of this sort would be of more value 

 than the common Fli', at any rate and, in order to have a 

 wood of Maples, the thinning out at different times must 

 be carried on precisely in the same manner as directed for 

 the Beech : to which directions the reader will be pleased 

 to refer. As to the felling of the Maple, like other deci- 

 duous trees, the bark of which is of no value, it ought to be 

 done while the leaf is off. Nothing good comes up from the 

 stem of the Maple, and therefore it ought to be grubbed 

 up roots and all, that the ground may be employed with 

 something else. 



407. The American Maples are worthy of particular at- 

 tention. The wood of most of them, as T have said before, 

 is singularly valuable. There are seven of them. First, 

 the White Maple [Acer Eriocarpum) 3 second, the Red 

 Flowering Maple {Acer Rubrum) ; third, the Sugar Maple 

 {Ace?' Saccharinuin) ; fourth, the Black Sugar Maple {Acer 

 Nigrum) ; fifth, the Moose Wood {Acer Striaium) ; sixth. 

 Box Elder {Acer NegiindoJ ; seventh, Mountain Maplb 

 {Acer Montamim), The first of these is whitish on the 

 under side of the leaf : it does not attain to a very great 

 size, and the wood of it appears, from Michaux, not to be 

 very valuable ; but it is a very beautiful tree, and the wood 

 is sometimes used for the inlaying of furniture. The 

 second, or Red Flowering Maple, is a tree which rises to 

 the heighth of seventy feet ; it grows best in very moist 

 ground ; and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania there are ex- 

 tensive marshes, called Maple Swamps, entirely covered 

 with this tree. 



408. The wood is made use of for many purposes, espe- 

 cially ornamental furniture. It is this tree which produces 



