ACE 
JESC 
Sycamore, is a very hardy tree, growing 
perfectly erect even on the most exposed 
parts of the sea coast. In the spring the 
bright green of its ample foliage is very 
pleasing, but, from the attraction offered 
to insects in the sweet juicy exudation of 
its leaves, and the quantity of dust this 
gummy substance collects, is soon ren¬ 
dered disagreeable. 
A. platanoicles , the Norway maple, is 
preferable as an occupant of ornamental 
plantations; it attains a height of fifty 
feet, and on good soil is a rapid grower, 
with leaves that are rather larger than 
those of the sycamore, and being always 
smooth, and of a shining green, are not 
liable to the objection offered to the other. 
In the spring, the bright yellow flowers 
of this species are very pretty, and in 
autumn its leaves die into almost an 
equally bright shade, when the effect 
created by its grouping with other trees 
of more sombre tints is greatly to be 
admired. 
A. saccharinwm. The sugar maple 
bears a close resemblance to the pre¬ 
ceding, and is a fine tree. A. striatum 
is of smaller growth, and very ornamental, 
on account of its smooth stem being 
variegated with green and white bands, 
and the bright shining red of the smaller 
branches in winter. 
A. opalus. The Italian maple is a 
noble tree, attaining a great height, and 
possessing large and handsome foliage, 
but the great litter its leaves and seeds 
make in autumn is sufficient to deter 
from planting in ornamental grounds. 
All the species yield more or less, by 
incision, a sweet juice, from which 
wine may be made; and in Canada a 
great quantity of sugar is obtained from 
the A. saccharinum; for this purpose 
the trees are tapped in the early part of 
spring, by boring an auger two or three 
inches into them, and in the hole a spout 
is fixed, through which the juice runs to 
a receiver placed at the foot of the tree : 
this is collected daily, and by boiling 
becomes granulated ; the process is kept 
up for four or five weeks, and in suitable 
weather, during warm days and frosty 
nights, an ordinary tree will run off from 
twenty to thirty gallons of sap, yielding, 
when manufactured, about five or six 
pounds of sugar. 
Maples require an open, loamy soil, 
where they grow rapidly, without much 
regard to situation or aspect: they may 
be propagated by layers in autumn, or 
cuttings in spring; but the best trees are 
obtained from seed, which is usually pro¬ 
duced in great abundance; it should be 
sown in beds of sandy loam in April, 
covering it about an inch, and in the 
second year should be transplanted to 
nursery rows, to be again removed every 
second season till finally planted, which 
is best done between the fourth and 
eighth year of the plant’s age. 
ADENOCARPUS (Decandolle.) 
Nat. Ord. Legimiinosre. Handsome shrubs, 
with bright yellow pea-shaped flowers, 
which are displayed in June ; four species 
are hardy, and the remaining two, folio- 
losus and franlcenioides, are nearly so, 
only requiring to be matted up in severe 
weather. They make neat heads when 
worked by grafting upon the common 
Laburnum, or upon their own roots, as 
under shrubs are very desirable; increased 
by layers or seed. 
iESCULUS, Horse Chesnut (Linn.) 
Nat. Ord. Hippocastanea ?. In our cata¬ 
logues there are eight species of the 
Horse Chesnut enumerated, though, in 
all probability, a revise! of the genus 
would reduce it to about three; the 
remaining part wearing every appearance 
of varieties only, the chief difference 
existing in the colour of their flowers. 
Perhaps no other tree has ever given 
occasion for the exhibition of so much 
caprice on the part of those who would 
direct the,public taste in matters of the 
sort: it has been alternately apotheosized 
and anathematized, as the geometric, 
picturesque, or gardenesque style has 
been prevalent. At its introduction, in 
or about 1620, it was regarded as much 
for its fruit as for its beauty, and con¬ 
tinued a favorite till the ridicule of 
poetry expelled regularity from our 
gardens; when its “ compact, lumpish, 
parabolic form” exciting the ire of the 
wits of that age, it was forthwith banished 
from view, till the reaction consequent 
on all violent impulses led to a recoil- 
