. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XIII. y^CERA^CE^ :' jl'cEU. 85 leaves. About the end of October, the leaves become either of a clear, or a yel- lowish, red, and then drop off. The flowers appear just before the leaves, near the end of April: they form a short raceme, somewhat corymbose. The fruits, or keys, have their
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XIII. y^CERA^CE^ :' jl'cEU. 85 leaves. About the end of October, the leaves become either of a clear, or a yel- lowish, red, and then drop off. The flowers appear just before the leaves, near the end of April: they form a short raceme, somewhat corymbose. The fruits, or keys, have their wings yellow. It is not till the tree has attained the age of nearly 40 years that it produces fertile seeds, though it will flower many years before that period. The rate of growth of this species, when once es- tabhshed, is from 18 in. to 3 ft. long every year, till it attains the height of 20 or 30 feet; which, in favourable situations, it does in ten years. The wood weighs, when dry, 43 lb. 4 oz. per cubic foot; is easily worked, takes a fine polish, and absorbs and retains all kinds of colours. It may be used for all the various purposes of the wood of the common sycamore. Sugar is made from the sap in Norway, Sweden, and Lithuania. Seeds are ripened in England in abundance. S 7. A. saccha'einum L. The Sugar Maple. Identification. Lin. Sp., 1496.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 595.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 650.; Tor. and Gray, 1. p. 248. Synont/mes. Rock Majple, Hard Maple, Bird's-eye Maple, Amer.; Acero del Canada, Ital. Engravings. Miciix. FL Arb , 2. ; the plate of tliis species in Arb. Brit., let edit., vol. v. \ our Jig. 130.; and^. 152. of tlie leaves, of ttie natural size, in the plate forming p. 108,109. i'_ ec. Char., S;c. Leaves cordate, smooth, glaucous beneath, palmately 5-lobed; lobes acuminated, serrately toothed. Corymbs drooping, on short peduncles. Pedicels pilose. Fruit smooth, with the wings diverging. (Don's Mill.) A deciduous tree. Canada to Georgia. Height in Ame
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