. 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. but 5> SUGAR MAPLE. 85 fl The largest recorded tree of this species, in Europe, is at Worlitz, in Saxony. At the expiration of sixty years after being planted, it was fifty feet high. The largest sugar maple in the neighbourhood of l-ondon, is at Purser's Cross, which, in 1835, had attained t
. 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. but 5> SUGAR MAPLE. 85 fl The largest recorded tree of this species, in Europe, is at Worlitz, in Saxony. At the expiration of sixty years after being planted, it was fifty feet high. The largest sugar maple in the neighbourhood of l-ondon, is at Purser's Cross, which, in 1835, had attained the height of forty-five feet. Several large trees of this species are found on (>oat Island, at the falls of Ni- agara ; but they are far inferior in size to myriads of others, in Canada, New England, and other parts of America. i^oil, Situation, 4'c. The natural habitat of the Acer saccharinum is the steep and shady banks of rivers, which rise in mountainous regions, and in all elevated situations, where the soil is cold and humid, free, deep, and fertile, and not sur- charged with moisture. When cultivated, the same soil is recommended as in the Acer platanciides; but as it is less hardy, the situation should be more shel- tered. In Europe, it is always propagated by seeds, where its rate of growth varies from one to four feet per annum. In tlie United States it is either propa- gated from seeds, in nurseries, or transplanted from the woods or fields, to the site where it is intended to remain. The age of this tree in America does not usually exceed two hundred years. Insects. Few insects or their larvae seem to feed upon the leaves of the sugar maple, with the exception of the Apatcla amer'icana, described by Dr. Harris, in his " Report on the Insects of Massachusetts injurious to Vegetation," and also figured and described in Smith and Abbot's " Insects of Georgia," under the name of Phuhina accris. The caterpillar of this insect eats the leaves
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