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the firft iummer. The autumn following (if they 
are ck>fe in the feed-bed) it will be proper to tram- 
plant them into a nurfery, in rows at three feet diftance, 
and two feet afunder in the rows*, in which place they 
may 'remain three or tour years, by which time they 
will be large enough to plant out for good. 
If the feeds of any of the forts of Maple are kept out 
of the ground till fpring, they rarely come tip the fame 
year, and many times do not grow; fo that the lureft 
method of railing them is, to low the feeds as foon as 
poffible when they are ripe; and, if the feeds are to 
be tranfported to any diftance, it will be proper to 
put them up in land, or earth, whereby their growing 
quality will be preferved. 
The firft and fourth forts are very proper to make 
plantations near the fea, or to flicker inch plantations 
of trees as are too nearly fituated thereto. For both 
thefe forts thrive, and re lifts the fpray, which is ufually 
blown from the fea, better than moft other trees do. 
The variegated fort is alfo railed from feeds of the 
fame kind; and moft of the plants fo raifed, will be 
as finely ftriped as the old plant from whence the feeds 
were taken, which is not common to many other va- 
riegated plants. 
The common Maple is too well known to need any 
articular account, it growing, very frequently, in 
edge-rows in moft parts of England. It is railed in 
the fame manner with the former. ' 
The Virginian flowering Maple was raifed from feeds, 
which 'were brought from Virginia many years ftnce 
by Mr. John Tradefcant, in his garden at South Lam- 
beth, near Vauxhall, and fince, in the gardens of the 
Bifhop of London, at Fulham, where the trees have 
flowered for feveral years, and produced ripe feeds, 
from which feveral trees have been raifed. It may be 
alfo propagated by laying down the young branches 
early in the fpring, giving them a little flit at a joint, 
by which means they will have taken fufficient root in 
two years, to be tranlplanted elfewhere. They require 
a fituation a little defended from the north-ealt winds, 
efpecially while young; and delight in a moift light 
foil, in which they thrive much better than in a dry 
ground, and will produce more flowers, and better 
feeds. This tree commonly flowers in the beginning 
of April, and the feeds are ripe in five or fix weeks 
after, at which time they fhould be fowed; for they 
are very apt to perifh, if kept long out of the ground. 
There is another variety of the flowering Maple, 
which was lent from America to Sir Charles Wager, 
and flourifhed feveral years in his garden at Parfons- 
green, near Fulham. This is by the gardeners titled 
Sir Charles Wager’s flowering Maple. The flowers 
of this kind come out in large drifters, and furround 
the younger branches, fo as to appear at a fmall dif- 
tance covered with them. It is now become pretty 
common in feme of the nurferies near London, fo 
that the former fort is mot fo much eficeemed, being 
lefs beautiful ; but it is doubtful if they are dif- 
tinhb fpecies. 
The Afh -leaved Maple is a very ftrong fin oo ting tree, 
and is, in Virginia, one of the largeft trees of this 
kind. It muft be planted in places not too much ex- 
pofed to violent winds, being fubjeft to fplit thereby. 
This tree ripens feeds very well in England, by which 
means it is eaiily propagated, or by cuttings planted 
in autumn. 
The Norway Maple lias a milky fharp juice, fo that 
few infefis care to prey thereon, by which means the 
leaves are feldom eaten or defaced; and being fmooth, 
and of a firming green, they have a much better ap- 
pearance than thofe of the Sycamore; and in the fpring, 
when the flowers are out, have great beauty. This 
tree is alfo raifed by feeds, of which it affords great 
quantities, which rife and grow from the fcattered feeds 
as well as the common fort; it will alfo grow from 
cuttings, if they are planted in the autumn. 
The variegated kind may alfo be propagated by in- 
oculating a bud of the ftriped kind into ope of the 
plain fort, though I am not at prefent fore whether it 
will take upon any other fort of Maple, not having 
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made the experiment; but I believe it can fcarce fail, 
ivioft, it not all the other forts of Maples,- take very 
well upon each other. 
The .American Sugar Maple has fame refemblance to 
the Norway, when the plants are young; but as they 
grow up the leaves are more deeply divided, and their 
fur faces lefs fmooth, fo that they are then eafiiy dtftin- 
guifhed. From this tree the inhabit ants of North 
America make a very good fort of lugar, in large 
quantities, by tapping the trees early in the fpring, and 
boiling the juice, which drawn out till the faeces fub- 
fide, is the iugar; but I am of opinion, that the people 
make. Iugar from more than one fort of Maple in 
America, for I have found that the Afh-leaved Maple 
abounds with a faccharine juice, in full as great plenty 
as any other fort. Mr. Ray and Dr. Lifter, prepared 
a tolerable good fort of iugar from our greater Maple, 
by tapping feme of the trees in their bleeding feaibnft 
and I have obferved, upon cutting off branches from 
the fcarlet Maple in February, a great quantity of a 
very fweet juice hath flowed out for feveral days to- 
gether. 
1 he eighth fort of Maple is very common in men: 
parts or Italy, but, particularly about Rome, where it 
is one of the largeft trees of that country, and is 
efteemed for the fize of the leaves, which are large, 
affording a great fhade; fo that thefe trees are fre- 
quently planted by the fides of roads, and near habi- 
tations. In England this tree is very rarely to be met 
with, though it is hardy enough to bear the open air; 
but as the feeds have not been brought over to Eng- 
land till lately, there are no large plants in the Eng- 
lifh gardens at prefent. 
The ninth fort is common in the fouth of France and 
Italy; the leaves of this refemble thofe of the common 
Maple, but are of a much thicker fubftance, and not 
fo large, but are of a fhining green colour. They 
continue in verdure very late in the autumn, which 
renders the trees more valuable. At prefent, this fort 
is not common in England. I raifed feveral plants 
from feeds, forne of which have for feveral years pro- 
duced good feeds in the Chelfea garden, where from 
the fcattered feeds the plants come up annually in 
plenty. 
The tenth fort hath feme refemblance to the ninth. 
The leaves of this fort are of a much thinner tex- 
ture, and their foot-fcalks are covered with a foft 
hairy dow r n, whereas thofe of the other are fmooth 
and ftiff. This fort grows naturally in the Levant. 
Moft of the forts of Maple which come from Ame- 
rica, are very impatient of heat while young; their 
feeds therefore fhould be fown in a flickered fituation, 
for if the plants are expofed to the full fun but one 
day, when they firft appear, few of them will furvive 
it; but efpecially the Sugar Maple, of which fort I 
conftantly loft moft of the plants, till I had the pre- 
caution to place the pots, in which the feeds were 
fown, entirely in the fhade; for no fooner are they 
expofed to the fun, but they are immediately attacked 
by infefts, which in one day will devour their feed 
leaves, after which the plants fuddenly drop to the 
ground. This precaution therefore is neoeffary to be 
obferved, in railing moft of the forts of Maple from 
feeds. 
The timber of the common Maple is far fuperior to 
the Beech for all ufes of the turner, particularly difhes, 
cups, trenchers, and bowls ; and when it abounds with 
knots (as it very often doth), it is highly efteemed by 
the joiners for inlayings, &c. and alfo for the light- 
nefs of the wood, is often employed by thefe that 
make mufical initruments; and for the whitenefs of its 
wood, it was formerly in great requeft for tables, &c. 
ACETOSA [of acetojks, L. eager, four.] The Sorrels 
are by Dr. Linnaeus joined to the genus of Dock, 
under the title of Rumex ; but as all the known fpe- 
cies of Sorrel, have male flowers growing upon dif- 
tinct roots from the female, therefore by his method 
fhould be ranged in his twenty-fecond clafs titled Di- 
ceceia; therefore I have taken the liberty to feparate 
thefe from the Docks, rather to preferve their old title, 
as 
