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Aisiiculus Indica is still very rare in gardens and 
I have not (so far as I know) yet seen it in Amer- 
ica. It will very likely be hardier at southern points 
than in Britain. Its flowers vary a good deal, and 
I think it likely to include the carnea forms. 
It has spineless fruit. There are half a dozen spec 
ies natives of North America, most of which vary 
more or less; all are found south-east and west of 
Ohio. 
Acer, “Maple” includes 84 species of (very vari- 
able) trees and shrubs natives of Europe, Northern 
Asia, North America, the Himalayas, and Java. 
The Asiatic forms are the most beautiful, while the 
American forms of which there are nine or ten are 
perhaps the most majestic. The Japanese A. pal- 
matum in its wonderful varieties such as P. aureum, 
P. atropurpureum, P. dissectum, etc., are the most 
beautiful small trees or shrubs in the genus. A. 
Tartaricum from the Caucassus and S. E. Europe 
STAPHVLEA COLCHICA. 
is also a beautiful small tree, some of its varieties 
being remarkably gay in the autumn. I believe 
however that the American A. rubrum (so-called 
from its red flowers) is the most beautifully autumn 
colored tree in existence — when it is colored! 
— which is much more rarely than may commonly 
be thought. 
My observation leads me to doubt if one tree in 
5,000 colors in a manner to attract attention, but 
when it does do its best it is undoubtedly one of 
the most striking objects in the vegetable Kingdom, 
and more enduring in its display than that marvel 
of the East Indian Forests — the Butea. I don’t be- 
lieve I can possibly write a greater sarcasm upon 
the boasted enterprise of American Nurserymen, 
than a reference to the occasional coloring of this 
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tree! A. saccharinum which certain Botanists wish 
to call A. dasycarpum which also other Botanists 
wish to call saccharum! are the familiar sugar and 
silver maples. It may be worth mentioning for the 
South (as the Northern forms are mifify there) that 
Chapman and others quote a variety of the sugar 
maple, A. S. Floridarum, as being widely diffused. 
Some 30 or 40 species and varieties of maple 
are kept in good nurseries. There are but two 
species credited to Great Britain, A. campestre a 
small tree or hedge-row shrub, and A. pseudo- 
platanus, which many contend is not a native of 
Great Britain at all, but adventive from Central Eu- 
rope and Western Asia. It will certainty grow up 
from seed in Britain, and as it is not very long lived, 
I don’t see how these Botanical authors reach their 
conclusions, seeing there is scarcely such a thing in 
the island as a forest of nature’s planting. It varies 
a great deal both in the coloring of the foliage, and 
of the seed “keys.” A. macrophyllum is credited 
to the whole length of our Pacific coast — from 
Alaska to Mexico. 
Negundo, “.Ash leaved maple” has 3 species one 
common to most of the middle states^ one Califor- 
nian and one Japanese. There is a beautiful form 
