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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
quickly take root the fame feafon; but in wet ground, 
or of a ftrong loamy or clayey nature, the fpring, 
about February or March, may be a more eligible time 
for planting in fuch foils, or at leaf! either in that fea¬ 
fon, or early in autumn, not too freely in winter, ex¬ 
cept in dryifh, light ground; and as to ever-greens, it 
is advifeable to plant them either principally in autumn, 
about September, Oftober, and beginning of No¬ 
vember, or in the fpring, February, March, or 
April, as mod of thefe kinds, when tranfplanted in 
cold feafoiis, in winter, or early in fpring, are more 
liable, before they ftrike good root, to fuffer by the 
feverity of froft and other inclement weathers, than 
molt of the deciduous forts, unlefs where they can be 
removed with balls of earth, efpecially any of the 
more curious or tender fpecies, fo as not to receive 
any or but little check by removal. 
And in the general planting of trees and fhrubs for 
ornament, or alfo in woods, &c. for timber plantations, 
it is advifeable to have the deciduous and ever-green 
kinds moftly in feparate compartments, or in clumps 
alternately of the former and latter; or may occafion- 
ally interfperfe fome ever-greens in the deciduous plan¬ 
tations to encreafe the variety, and for the ever-greens 
in their continuing leaves, to difplay a more confpi- 
cuous and lively appearance in the plantations in win¬ 
ter, when the deciduous kinds are deftitute of their 
foliage. 
But for the particular directions relative to the dif¬ 
ferent fpecies, &c. methods of propagation, planting, 
and general culture, fee the refpeftive articles under 
their principal heads, in the following fyftem and dif¬ 
play ; to which, after the foregoing obfervations, we 
lhall now proceed. 
Acer MAPLE TREE and Sycamore. 
In the Botanic Syftem the Maples belong 
to the 
, Clafs and Order 
Polygamia Monoecia, 
Many Marriages, One Habitation ; 
Or Flowers of different Sexes, as Hermaphrodite and 
Males, feparated on the fame Tree. 
THE family of Maples are principally of the tree 
kind, of middling and large growth, from twenty or 
thirty to fifty or fixty feet high, or more; all oPthe 
deciduous tribe, and hardy to grow in any open fitua- 
tions, &c. fome proper to cultivate for foreft or timber 
trees, others principally to plant for ornament and 
variety, inpleafurableplantations,both for the diverfity 
of their different growths and foliage; and fome, for 
their ornamental flowering, are garnifhed in fummer, to 
the end of autumn, with Ample leaves of moderate, 
middling, and large expanfion, divided lefs or more 
into three or five lobes, and with fmall flowers of five 
j>etals, ia racemus dufters, corymbus and aggregate 
bunches, fucceeded by winged capfules, furnifhed 
with roundifh feeds: ripe in fummer and autumn, for 
flowing the fame feafon, or in fpring, to raife fupplies 
of young trees; and which may alfo be propagated by 
layers and cuttings. 7 
The Generic C bar afters are—Hermaphrodite and male 
flowers apart on the fame plant—the calyx or outer 
cup one-leaved, deeply cut into five acute fegments_ 
corolla or flower, five oval fpreading pends, contain¬ 
ing in the centre eight fhort ftaminasXY male organs, 
crowned with procumbent crofs-plar'd anthera_and 
in the hermaphrodite flowers, a comprcfled germen in 
the bottom of the calyx, furmounted by a double 
fligma or female part, which becomes two winged cap¬ 
fules, each furnifhed with one roundifh feed. 
The Species are, 
1. Acer campefre, Champagne or common fmaller 
Maple. 
A moderate tree, growing twenty or thirty feet 
high; the bark rough, leaves (middling fize) loba- 
ted, three-parted, obtufe emarginated or end-notch¬ 
ed.—-Native of the fouthern parts of Europe, England, 
&c. in woods and hedges. 
2. Acer P/eudo-Platanus, (Pfeudo-Platanus, or falfe 
Plane Tree) greater Maple or Sycamore. 
A largifh tree, growing forty or fifty feet high, or 
more; the leaves (large, broad) fivelobed, unequally 
fawed on the edges, and with flowers in large racemus 
clufters, fucceeded by bunches of winged feed veffels, 
—Native of England, Switzerland and Auftria. 
Variety of this. Striped-leaved Sycamore. 
3. Acer rubrum, Red^or Scarlet flowering Maple of 
Virginia. 
A moderate tree, growing twenty-five to thirty feet 
high; the leaves (middling) five lobed, a little indent¬ 
ed or teethed, glaucous or whitifh fea-green under¬ 
neath, and with Ample peduncles or fiower-flalks ag¬ 
gregated; the flowers reddifh.—Native of Virginia, in 
North America. 
Variety. Sir Charles Wager’s flowering Maple ;• 
flowers pale red, in large bunches, ap¬ 
pearing very ornamental in the fpring, 
April, or May. 
4. Acer Platanoides, (Platanoides, or Plane-Tree 
like) Norway Maple. 
A largifh tree, growing thirty or forty to fifty feet 
high; the leaves (largifh, fhining green) five lobed, 
pointed, fharply indented, fmooth,. and with flowers 
in- 
