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DWARF MAPLE. 
the vicinity of Philadelphia, in New Jersey, and in Chester 
County, according to Dr. Darlington. In this the leaves 
are smaller and 3-lobed, and more or less tomentose be- 
neath. 
The Bearded Maple. (A. barlatum of Michaux), ac- 
cording to Torrey and Gray, turns out to be a nonentity, 
as it is founded upon the flowers of the Sugar Maple, the 
fruit of the Red Maple, and a leaf (probably) of the Acer 
spicatum or Mountain Maple ! 
Sugar Maple. (Acer saccharinum.') It is reported that 
1,065,000 pounds of maple sugar have been made annually 
of late, in New Hampshire, and that several of the counties 
use it exclusively, raising some also for sale. 
The Sugar Maple, in and about Warwick, Goshen, and 
Edenville, in the state of New York, as well as in the 
neighbouring parts of New Jersey, attains an unusually 
large growth. Trees near Edenville may be seen which 
are 80 to 90 feet high, and with a diameter of from 2, 3, 
or even 4. feet. A very vigorous tree with a round. sum- 
mit, clad nearly to the base with a dense and very shady 
circle of branches, about 70 feet high, having a diameter 
of 2 feet 10 inches, and yet a comparatively young and 
vigorous tree, may be seen near the late Dr. Fowler’s house, 
at Franklin Furnace, and several others in the same neigh- 
bourhood appear equally beautiful and large. In the old 
trees, the bark accumulating for ages, gives the trunk a 
rough and shaggy appearance, almost equal to that of the 
Shell-bark Hickory. 
Of this genus, there are according to Decandolle, 1 
species in Tartary, 5 in Europe, (excluding varieties 
erected into species,) 6 in Japan; one with oblong acumi- 
nate entire leaves in Nepaul, and specimens of 6 more 
species in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural 
