. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. 84 ACER SACCHARINUM. M â il :! ff '"4 'I :.M flU t'k ^3: in me2P»,raiicous Avings about an inch h SUth Tt ,, n '''â¢' ^"^ ermuiating vania and New York bv the first of OrfnbprS ,'l,"'".''"X ^-'P^'^s in Pcnnsyl- a month or six weeks car ier VvtornnM A , "^'' ^''' ^'
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. 84 ACER SACCHARINUM. M â il :! ff '"4 'I :.M flU t'k ^3: in me2P»,raiicous Avings about an inch h SUth Tt ,, n '''â¢' ^"^ ermuiating vania and New York bv the first of OrfnbprS ,'l,"'".''"X ^-'P^'^s in Pcnnsyl- a month or six weeks car ier VvtornnM A , "^'' ^''' ^'"'^ ^^"^i»« its full size one of them, Stxll^^^^^ P-^-t; but once ni two or three years. 'iiwayt, empty, ihe iruit matures only F^/;vV/y/. I'he Acer saccharinum has been confounded by some botanists with another tree so nearly allied to it, that it can only be re- garded as a variety. From the dark hue of Its leaves, ,t was very appropriately designated by Mr Loudon, under the name of A^ s. ni- grum {Acer nigrum, Michaux,) or Black Su- gar Maple. According to Michaux, the leaves ot this variety are pale-green beneath, the veins of the lower surface and petioles minutclv VI ous-pubescent, and the wings of the fruit a little more diverging than those of the species, as indicated in the adjoining figure. "The leaves, ' he says, "are five or six inches long, and exhibit, in every respect, nearly the sanie conformation as those of the true sugar ; . rhey differ from it," continues he, "chieflv in being of a darker green, and of a thicker texture; and m being somewhat more blmilly ^^^rXlrZ^^^Z^U^ -â sugar maple, ticut; but is readily S^nsn from ^^L^^y"\'^ ^'â¢""^' «"^ ^«''"««- darker colom of the lea is''" Whin ?> \^ ^ T''^'^' "'^'^ '^ ^'^"'^"^«' ""'^^ the a regular and agreeable fbnn I, An l '' f v^' ''}?''''' '' ""^''''^^^Y ^««"'"
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