. e parallelof about the sixty-eighth degree in Europe. It is nowhere more abundant thanbetween the parallels of forty-three and forty-six degrees, comprising all, or agreat part of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the states of Maine, NewHampshire, Vermont, and New York, the true region assigned by nature for thegrowth of this tree. It is also found, but more sparingly, in almost every statein the union, particularly on the flanks of the entire range of the AUeghanies totheir termination in Georgia. This species was introduced i
. e parallelof about the sixty-eighth degree in Europe. It is nowhere more abundant thanbetween the parallels of forty-three and forty-six degrees, comprising all, or agreat part of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the states of Maine, NewHampshire, Vermont, and New York, the true region assigned by nature for thegrowth of this tree. It is also found, but more sparingly, in almost every statein the union, particularly on the flanks of the entire range of the AUeghanies totheir termination in Georgia. This species was introduced into England, in 1734, by CoUinson, and sincethat time, it has been cultivated in the principal gardens throughout Wingersky is said to have planted a great number of trees on his estate inMoravia, and to have drawn off the sap from them at the age of twenty-fiveyears, in order to make sugar. He succeeded in procuring a very good article;but in consequence of depriving the trees of their sap every year, they becamesickly, and soon afterwards I SUGAR MAPLE. 95 The largest recorded tree of this species, in Europe, is at WorHtz, in the expiration of sixty years after being planted, it was fifty feet high. The largest sugar maple in the neighbourhood of London, is at Pursers Cross,which, in 1835, had attained the height of forty-five feet. Several large trees of this species are found on Goat Island, at the falls of Ni-agara; but they are far inferior in size to myriads of others, in Canada, NewEngland, and other parts of America. iSoil, Situation. ^*c. The natural habitat of the Acer saccharinum is the steepand shady banks of rivers, which rise in mountainous regions, and in all elevatedsituations, Avhere the soil is cold and humid, free, deep, and fertile, and not sur-charged with moisture. When cultivated, the same soil is recommended as inthe Acer platanoides; but as it is less hardy, the situation should be more shel-tered. In Europe, it is always
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