THE HORSECHESTNUT, ASH AND MAPLE 



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Range: Eastern United States. 

 Soil and location: Moist places. 



Enemies: The leopard vioth, a wood-boring insect, and 

 the cottony-maple scale, a sucking insect. 



Fig. 26.— The Sugar Maple. 



Value for planting: Grows too rapidly and is too short- 

 lived to be durable. 



Commercial value: Its wood is soft, weak, and little 

 used. 



Other characters: The bark is light gray, smooth at 

 first and scaly later on. The scales are free at each end 



