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MAPLE LEAF 



maple is widely used for flooring. Saddles, 

 boats, shoe lasts and wooden kitchen ware are 

 made of hard maple, and it is used for bicycle 

 rims, various parts of automobiles, and parts of 

 many musical instruments. In the manufacture 

 of agricultural implements sugar maple holds 

 an important place, heading the list of woods 

 used for that purpose in many great manufac- 

 turing centers. It is widely used as fuel, and 

 as a producer of ashes for fertilizer and other 

 purposes sugar maple stands first. About 1,167,- 

 000,000 board feet of maple are cut in the 

 United States yearly and most of that is from 

 the sugar maple. 



i Other American species are the black maple, 

 also a sugar producer; the widely-grown silver 

 maple, beautifully clothed in shimmering silver 

 and green, a quick-growing, hardy tree, but 

 with light, brittle wood; the broadleaf, or Ore- 

 gon maple, the most valuable hardwood of the 

 Pacific coast; the small striped, mountain and 

 dwarf maples; the vine maple, and that valu- 

 able ornamental and lumber tree, the red, or 

 swamp maple, of which Lowell writes in his An 

 Indian Summer Reverie: 



The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, 

 Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush. 



In Canada, maples comprise thirty per cent 

 of the trees furnished by the government to 

 meet the lack of natural protection against 

 wind and snow. 



Foreign Maples. The sycamore maple, with 

 thick sycamorelike leaves and wide-spreading 

 branches, is the most important hardwood tree 

 of Europe, and is planted in America to some 

 extent. The Norway maple, a large tree with 

 dense foliage, is popular in England and is ex- 

 tensively grown in middle-western America. 

 Various species of low-growing, feathery leaved 

 Japanese maples are widely used for ornament. 



Maple Insects. All maples are frequently at- 

 tacked by injurious insects. Some bore into 

 the bark while others eat the leaves. Great 

 damage is often done by the tent caterpillar, 

 the sugar-maple borer, numerous scales and 

 species of plant lice and galls. Various washes, 

 when the leaves are off the trees, are effective 

 cures for scales. Whitewashing the tree trunks 

 several times a season will keep out the borers. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Insecticides and Maple Leaf, The 



Fungicides Sugar 



Leaves Tent Caterpillar 



MAPLE CREEK, a town in Southwest Sas- 

 katchewan. It is on the main line of the Cana- 



The Maple Leaf Forever 



In days of yore, the hero Wolfe, 



Britain's glory did maintain, 

 And planted firm Britannia's flag 



On Canada's fair domain. 

 Here may it wave, our boast, our pride, 



And join'd in love together, 

 The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine 



The Maple Leaf forever. 



CHORUS. 



The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear, 



The Maple Leaf forever ! 

 God save our King, and heaven bless 



The Maple Leaf forever ! 



On many hard-fought battle fields 



Our brave fathers, side by side, 

 For freedom, homes and loved ones dear, 



Firmly stood and nobly died : 

 And those dear rights which they main- 

 tained, 



We swear to yield them never, 

 We'll rally round the Union Jack, 



The Maple Leaf forever ' 



Chorus. 



In Autumn time our emblem dear 



Dons its tints of crimson hue ; 

 Our blood would dye a deeper red, 



Shed, dear Canada, for you ! 

 Ere sacred rights our fathers won 



To foemen we deliver, 

 We'll fighting die our battle cry, 



"The Maple Leaf forever." 



Chorus. 



God bless our loved Canadian homes, 



Our Dominion's vast domain : 

 May plenty ever be our lot, 



And peace hold an endless reign ; 

 Our Union, bound by ties of love, 



That discord cannot sever, 

 And flourish green o'er Freedom's home, 



The Maple Leaf forever ! 



Chorus. 



On Merry England's far-famed land, 



May kind heaven sweetly smile ; 

 God bless old Scotland evermore, 



And Ireland's emerald isle ! 

 Then swell the song, both loud and long, 



Till rocks and forests quiver ; 

 God save our King and heaven bless 



The Maple Leaf forever ! 



Chorus. 



