An address on the life and character of the late professor John Locke : delivered at the request of the Cincinnati Medical Society / by M.B. Wright.

  • Wright, M. B. (Marmaduke Burr), 1803-1879.
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[1857]
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    their respective pursuits. This principle was engrafted upon the mind of the botanist whose career we are endeavoring to sketch, at a very early period in life. He gazed admiringly upon the tiny flower, but he examined, with a view to their utility, plants and trees of large growth. Nearly forty years ago he called the attention of the public to several matters of interest, and among them to the value of the river maple, com- pared with sugar maple in the production of sugar, and as a shade tree. I can not refrain from quoting a few sentences from his communication. I never contemplated, he says, a picture or landscape with more delight than I have the banks of some of these streams (the Androscoggin, Saco, etc.), when viewed from the opposite shore. The tops of the trees present one continued range of foliage, which rises like a fleecy cloud, changing beautifully in the wind, as the upper green, or under white surface is presented to view. This cloud of leaves is supported by the clusters of trunks, like so many Gothic pillars, forming a variety of deep-shaded arches, and avenues beneath. I men- tion its beauty, because I think it deserves attention as an ornamental tree. Dr. Rush had expressed the opinion, that a sufficient quantity of sugar might be obtained from the maple to exclude, in a good degree, the West India article. This he advocated, not only as a system of national protection, but with the remote prospect of lessening the value of slave labor, and thus to ameliorate the oppressed condition of the slave himself. Although