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Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Item Info
- Title:
- Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
- Description:
- Do you remember Humphry Marshall from earlier? We’re going to bring him back into our tour through the Red Maple. This is a nice excuse to read a bit from the Arbustrum Americanum, Marshall’s tome on trees. Marshall wrote about the ‘Science of Botany’, ‘That it is an object highly deserving the attention of Mankind in general… but in a particular manner of the inhabitants of this Commonwealth’. ‘Those who are conversant in trade well know the continual enormous expence we are at in purchasing foreign Teas, Drugs, Dye-Stuffs, &c. The diminution of this, ought to be the care and concern of every friend to his Country’s welfare. And we presume it will appear evident, that the most eligible and obvious means may lead to this delightful science…’ Marshall wote about the 'This grows to a pretty large size in rich soil... There is a variety of this with yellowish flowers and seeds, which is, I believe, the most common kind in Pennsylvania'. (p.3)
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Attribution
- Citation:
- "Red Maple (Acer rubrum)", Quaker Roots Walking Tour, Friends Historical Library, https://github.com/QRoots/Quaker-Walking-Tour/items/qr25.html