Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
in corymbus bunches.—Native of the northern parts 
of Europe, mountains of Stiria, and Savoy. 
Varieties. Jagged-leaved Norway Maple. 
Striped-leaved Norway Maple. 
5. Acer faccharinum, Sacchariferous or Sugar Ma¬ 
ple of America. 
A middling tr^e, thirty or forty feet high; the 
leaves (largiih, C. ep green) five-parted palmated, 
Iharply indented, i'a-green underneath.—Native of 
Penfylvania and other parts of North America, where, 
by tapping the growing trees in the fpring, is ex¬ 
tracted a faccharine juice, of which is made a tolera¬ 
bly good fugar. 
6. Acer tataricum, Tartarian Heart-leaved Maple. 
A fmallifh or moderate tree, twenty to thirty feet 
high; the leaves (middling, deep green) hearted, un¬ 
divided, 'the lobes obfolete or flight, and flowers grow¬ 
ing in long racemus chillers.—Native of Tartaria, Afia, 
See. 
7. Acer penfylvanicum, Penfylvanian American Ma¬ 
ple. 
A largiih tree, thirty or forty feet high; the 
leaves (large) three lobed, pointed, fine-fawed, and 
with flowers in racemus clufters, (pendulous.)—Native 
cf Penfylvania, in North America. 
Acer monfpejfidanum, Montpelier French Maple. 
A moderate flze tree, growing eighteen or twenty 
feet high; the leaves (middling flze, Ihining green) 
three lobed, very intire, and fmooth.—Native of 
Montpelier, in France, alfo of Italy. 
9. Acer Negundo , (Negundo) or Alh-leaved Virgi¬ 
nia Maple. 
A large tree, growing forty or fifty feet high; the 
leaves (largiih, light green) compound, three and five 
lobed, and, flowers growing in racemus bunches.— 
Native of Virginia, in North America. 
10. Acer creticutn, Cretun Ivy-leaved Maple. 
A fmallilh tree, growing eighteen or twenty feet 
high; the leaves (middling fizc) three Jobed, intire, 
and downy.—Native of the Eall, in the Levant. 
»i. Acer OpaJus, (Opalus) or Italian round-leaved 
Maple. 
A largiih tree, thirty feet high or more; the leaves 
(large) lobated, flightly cut, and flowers and fruit 
growing in raceaus bunches.— Native of Italy. 
The foregoing being the principal fpecies and va¬ 
rieties of hardy Maples at prefent known and culti¬ 
vated in the Britilh gardens and plantations, are all 
eafily raifed from feed fowed in autumn, or early in 
the fpring, in beds of light earth; and moil ot the 
forts alfo, by layers and cuttings of the young v/ood in 
the fame feafons. 
They are all deciduous trees, or filch as defoliate or 
fhed their leaves at the approach of winter; the leave* 
moftly Ample, or of one expanlion, from three or four 
to fix or eight inches broad, in the different fpecies, 
beginning their expanfion in May, and continue till 
October, then decay and fall from the trees ;‘and the 
trees flower in fpring and early part of the fummer, 
moftly in largiih bunches on the young branches ; the 
flowers fmall and greenilh, except the Scarlet Maples, 
which, in particular, difplays a good ornamental appear¬ 
ance in its numerous'large clulters of flowers; and irt 
molt of the fpecies the feeds ripen abundantly, in fum¬ 
mer and early part of autumn, for fowing. 
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The trees are all of tolerably hardy growth, and will 
thrive in almoft any common foil, fltuation, and expo- 
fure ; and are eligible both for profitable and ornamen¬ 
tal plantations: the Common Maple, Sycamore, and 
all the larger kinds, are proper to affemble in foreft- 
tree, plantations for timber, in coppices for underwood, 
and in hedge-rows, fields, &c. and all the forts are 
alfo adapted to arange with other trees in any confi- 
derable decorative plantations in extenfive pleasure, 
grounds, Ihrubberries, parks, and any out-premifes, 
as in their different growths, foliage, and modes of 
flowering, &c. will effeCt a confpicuous and agreeable 
variety; or for fmaller plantation compartments, flirub. 
berries, clumps, &c. may have only fome of the more 
curious forts, fuch as the Striped-leas'ed Greater Ma¬ 
ple, Scarlet-flowering, Sacchariferous, Tartarian, 
Montpelier, and Cretan Maples. 
To Cultivate for foreft trees in woods, to grow to 
large -ftandards for timber, any of the larger growing 
kinds, as before obferved, may be admitted; fuch 
particularly as the Common and Greater Maple, the 
Platanoidcs or Norway Maple, Penfylvanian and Su¬ 
gar Maple, and the Negundo or afli-Ieaved kind. The 
wood of the Maples, for its whitenefs, was formerly 
in much eftimation for working into various article* 
in the cabinet-making branch, as tables, chairs, &c. 
and is ufeful for the turner, and feveral other trades, 
but not of any confiderable value_ for flrengll in the 
building way, or any very ftrong purpofes. 
They may be planted for the above occafions, both' 
in aflemblage with other foreft trees, and fome in fe- 
parate plantations, wholly of the Maple kind ; and iit 
all of which, may either be planted in clofe rows, only 
five or fix feet diftance, that they may draw up ono 
another ftxaight and more expeditioufly in height, and 
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