Description of Trees 167 



Red or Scarlet Maple (-1. nihnitn). — Our common 

 swamp or red maple, found growing throughout our Eastern, 

 Middle, and Western States, where it gives the most briUiant 

 coloring to the landscape by its bright red flowers and fruit 

 in the spring and the variously colored leaves in the autumn. 

 It grows best in rather moist locations, is easily transplanted, 

 and free from disease. 



Silver Maple (.4. saccharinum). — See Avenue- or Street- 

 trees. 



Tartarian Maple {A, tataricum). — A small tree with 

 small cut and lobed leaves, somewhat like those of the gray 

 birch, making an interesting and beautiful tree when in 

 flower or in fruit and again by its brilliant coloring in the 



autumn. 



Japanese Maples [A. pahnatu?n and japonicum). — 

 These are small-growing trees possessing a great variety 

 of forms and coloring of foliage. The more beautiful forms 

 with cut leaves and beautiful colors are very difficult to 

 propagate and therefore expensive, but in deep warm 

 soil a little sheltered from extreme drying winds they thrive 

 well and make most beautiful ornaments. Where trees have 

 reached fruiting size many beautiful forms may be growTi 

 from seeds which generally can be transplanted more suc- 

 cessfully than grafted plants. The first-named species has 

 produced the most var}'ing forms, some of which have 

 finely cut fern-like leaves, and of varying colors from dark 

 green through many stages of variation to the darkest red 

 or purple. Fig. 93. 



Among the best of these are: 



1. Red-leaved Japanese maple {A. p.,var. sangiiineuni). 



2. Purple-leaved Japanese maple {A. p., var. atropur- 



pureum) 



3. Purple cut-leaved weeping Japanese maple {A. p., 



var. dissectum atropiirpurum). 



