It is also propagated by layers and suckers.

By shredding up the boughs to a head, I have caused it to shoot to a wonderful height in a little time; but if you will lop it for the fire, let it be done in January; and indeed it is observ'd to be of noxious influence to the subnascent plants of other kinds, by reason of a clammy dew which it sheds upon them, and therefore they would not be indulg'd in pollards, or spreading trees, but to thicken under-woods and copses.

The timber is far superior to beech for all uses of the turner, who seeks it for dishes, cups, trays, trenchers, &c.

as the joyner for tables, inlayings, and for the delicateness of the grain, when the knurs and nodosities are rarely diapred, which does much advance its price: Our turners will work it so thin, that it is almost transparent: Also for the lightness (under the name _Aier_) imploy'd often by those who make musical instruments: Also that especially, which grows in Friuli, Carniola, and Saltzburglandt: There is a larger sort, which we call the sycomor.
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But the description of this lesser maple, and the ancient value of it, is worth the citing.