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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
a given size of tree, together with the richness of the sap in 
sugar, the Ash Leaf Maple stands at the head of the list, as it 
will produce double the sap of the Black Sugar Maple. 
As to quality of sugar, the White Maple will produce the 
whitest, but with less of the peculiar, agreeable flavor of maple 
than the two sugar maples, while the Ash Leaf Maple, pro¬ 
ducing a light colored, easily crystalizable sugar, gives a pecu¬ 
liar flavor to the raw sugar which is unlike any of the other 
maples, and to some persons is rather disagreeable. 
Three further points remain to be considered in the general 
comparison before the desirability of artificial propagation 
fully appears; they are the rapidity of growth, ease of propa¬ 
gation, and general vigor and health of the different species 
A very considerable amount of observation, as well as consid¬ 
erable experience which the writer has had with maple trees, 
gives rise to the following estimates upon the points above 
alluded to : 
Rapidity of 
Growth. 
Ease of 
Propaga¬ 
tion. 
Hardiness 
and Vigor 
of Habit. 
Average 
Diameter 
of Trunk 
at twelve 
years old. 
1 Stripp'd Ma pi ft. 
4tli. . 
4th. . 
6th.. 
5 inches. 
2. Mountain Maple (A large growing shrub) 
S Sncrar MaDlc. 
5th.. 
6tli.. 
2 cl .. 
3d .. 
1st.. 
5th.. 
6th.. 
2d .. 
3d .. 
1st.. 
2d .. 
3d .. 
5tli.. 
4th.. 
1st.. 
4 inches. 
3 inches. 
8 inches. 
7 inches. 
10 inches. 
4. Black Sugar Maple. 
5 Whit a M n.pl . 
(\ "Rnrl Ma.nl e. 
7. Asli Leaf Maple. 
If this estimate is correct, and it is made with the best light 
of observation and experience, it places the Ash Leaf Maple 
tree, third as a fuel wood, first as a sugar producer, first as a 
rapid grower, first as to ease of production and first as to hardi-. 
ness and thrift; making it the most desirable maple for gen¬ 
eral culture. But whether any of the maples are profitable as 
a crop to raise, is a question which must be answered affirma¬ 
tively in the minds of husbandmen before they will plant large¬ 
ly. In the writer’s mind, the following reasons have led to 
such an affirmative answer: 1st. The seed of the Ash Leaf 
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