Maples 



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A. platanoides laciuiata (150a), a most distinguished cut-leaf variety; 

 A. Schwedleri (151), a iine Norway maple, with the foliage turning 

 first crimson, then copper color, and A. Rcitenbachi (152), another 

 Norway, first green, then with advance of the season turning blood-red 

 to purple; A. World (153), a sycamore maple, with golden-hued leaves 

 in spring. A mere oddity is the Eagle-claw Maple, A. platanoides 

 crispum (154)- 



Fig. 94. — Acer polymorphum S. & Z. 



Besides the native mountain maple and the Tartarian maple, which 

 often grow into shrub-like forms, there is a group of maples from Japan, 

 of two species and a long list of varieties, mostly dwarfs, which, 

 although trees in form, are shrub-like in effect on account of their low 

 stature. They are peculiar, and at the same time most delicate in 

 outline and in type and hue of foliage; for color effects unique and most 

 interesting in carefully arranged, refined plantations, or single speci- 

 mens near the house. 



A. Japonicum Thunb. (155), the type ten to fifteen feet high, with 

 bright green, merely scalloped or fluted leaves, and delicate pink flowers 

 in early spring, is hardy to semi-hardy into Canada. It has given rise 

 to a number of varieties, with larger, smaller, deeply cut and variously 

 colored foliage. 



