THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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the Sugar Maple, Ace?' Saccharinum, 

 and the Silver Maple, Acer Dasycar- 

 pum. 



The difference in the style of growth 

 of these two varieties will be seen at a 

 glance by comparing the accompanying 

 illusti-ations. The Sugar Maple forms 

 « somewhat oval head, quite dense and 

 compact, yet graceful in outline, and 

 thickly covered with foliage. The 

 lights and shadows are broken into 

 many small masses, strongly defined, 



Silver Mai'le. 



and yet melting softly into each other. 

 But the lights so far exceed the shadows 

 that the whole has a bright and cheer- 

 ful expression. While lacking the 

 grandeur, the broad bold shadows of 

 the oak, and the chestnut and the 

 hickory, it is on that very account 

 more in harmony with cultivated 

 grounds and our smaller suburban 

 home-lots. 



The Silver Maple, on account of its 

 much more rapid growth, has been the 

 more popular variety for street planting. 

 It forms a loose, spreading head, with 

 long, swaying branches, and slender leaf 

 stems, so that when the wind blows, 

 the ruffled leaves display a pleasing 

 contrast of green and white, as the 

 under surfaces are brought to view. It 

 is not until the tree has attained to 

 considerable age that it breaks into 

 masses of light and shade, and at no 

 time is its autumnal foliage so richly 

 diversified with brilliant colors as that 

 of the Sugar Maple. The length of its 

 far out-spreading branches renders this 

 tree more liable te be broken by high 

 winds, or a heavy fall of snow or winter 

 ice storms, yet this can be largely 

 remedied by judicious shortening in of 

 the growing branches, thus rendering 

 the head more compact, and lessening 

 the leverage of incumbent snow. 



But there is neither time nor space to 

 even mention the many trees we have 

 that are suitable for home embellish- 

 ment. The object of this article is to 

 call attention to a tree that has not 

 been much planted in Canada, but 

 which possesses many excellencies which 

 make it worthy of the attention of those 

 who are selecting ornamental trees for 

 small grounds. The colored illustration 

 that accompanies this number will give 

 our readers a veu-y good ideji of its 

 general appearance. It is called the 

 Oak-leaved Mountain Ash. It "be- 

 longs to the great family of Kosaceae, 

 and to the genus Pyrus. By some 

 botanists it is designated a.s the Pi/rus 

 pinnatifida. Although commonly call- 



