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Trees for Shade and Ornament 



A. Negundo Linn. (144), Bo.xcldcr, Ash-leaved Maple, is a small to 

 medium -sized tree, native from Manitoba south, with compact, rounded 



Fig. 8g. — Norway Maple. Acer platanoides "Lmn. 



crown, its green branchlets of interest in winter, and its ash-like foliage 

 in summer. It is of very rapid growth on good soils, but short-lived 

 on poor ones, although adaptive to almost any soils e.xcepting wet ones. 



