28 LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



others make little progress after a few years, except in deep and 

 strong soils. 



The sugar maple {saccharinum) makes one of the most com- 

 pact and regular of round-headed trees, forming a dense shade 

 very agreeable to recline under in a hot summer's day. It is, 

 however, a slow grower compared with the scarlet or silver- 

 leaved, and should be planted only in rich, deep, and well- 

 drained soils. 



The moosewood or striped-barked maple is a small-growing 

 variety, extremely pretty from its stripes of white and black 

 upon the young green wood. It is adapted to the outside of 

 groups, or to positions where a tree of only medium size is 

 desired. 



The large-leaved maple (macrophyllum) is as yet scarce, 

 although introduced many years. It is of rapid growth, of a 

 spreading, upright habit, and of great beauty from its immense 

 size of foliage. 



As a street shade, or for public parks, and especially as a tree 

 to plant near the house where shade combined with stateliness 

 and character are desired, the sycamore maple (2iseudo platanus) 

 has claims worthy of special notice. It is rapid in growth, with 

 foliage broad and of a rich green, intermediate in appearance 

 between the buttonwood or sycamore and the sugar maple. 

 In autumn, when dying off, it becomes a rich golden yellow. 



The Norway maple (platanoides) is another variety desirable. 

 More upright, not as spreading as pseudo platanus, but with 

 large, broad leaves, not of as rapid growth, nor forming so large 

 a tree. 



The variety commonly known as English maple (campestris) 

 is of slow growth, forming a very stocky round-headed tree 

 fifteen to twenty feet high, admirably suited for planting on 

 some little rounded knoll or as the center of a group of low- 

 growing shrubs. 



