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Acer negundo [A. - negundo - Ash Leav'd Naple]
?6B 8
Broadside Cataloffue
John Bartram to Feter Collinson, August 20, 1753, Wildman
Transcriptions
Ash Leaved Maple sent to Collinson.
Acer
ensylvanicum [A. ornata - Striped Bark Maple]
r;17?> - probably a-Bartram introduction
Broadside Catalogue
John Bartram to Peter Collinson, August 20, 1753, Wildman
Transcriptions
The striped Maple's place of growth being
particular to ye northern ridges of our
blew mountains from no. river to Susquenana
I_c Acer rubrum [A* - rubra - Scarlet Plaple]
c. 1 6 r
Broadside Catalogue
Bartram's descriptcon of native trees, 1743, Wildman Transcriptions
ye tree [Scarlet Maple] grows with us in
moist swampy - - ground - with a clay or gravelly
bottom by runs or rivulets
_IC Acer saccharinum [A, c glauca - Silver Leav'd Maple]
1. 1725
Broadside Catalogue
John Bartram to Peter Collinson 1742, Wildman Transcriptions
in the box are ye keys of our great silver
jaged leaved maple
Bartram's description of native trees, 1743, Wildman Transcriptions
this tree grows generally on ye banks of
rivers above ye tide to a large spreading
tree
Acer saccharum [A. - sachariflua - Sugar Maple]
f,-273 5
Peter Collinson to John Bartram, February 3, 1738, Wildman
Transcriptions
The leaves of the Sugar Tree are very informing
and are i? great curiosity but we
wish thee had gathered little branches with
the flowers on them and some little branches
with the keys on them. The seeds of this
tree, which by the leaves and keys is a real
Maple, 1 cracked many of them and not one had
a kernal in them which 5 am surprised at notwithstanding
all thy care Whether they was