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AMERICAiN FORESTRY 



The wood of the Sugar Maple is well known. It 

 touches our hands and satisfies our wants almost daily. 

 We use it more frequently and in a greater number of 

 ways than any other wood. It may be classified as an 

 all-around wood, for it is used in the manufacture of not 

 less than five hundred distinct articles of commerce. It 

 is one of our 

 chief flooring; 

 and furniture 

 woods. Large 

 quantities are 

 also used for 

 broom handles, 

 r e f rigerators, 

 kitchen cabi- 

 nets, tooth 

 picks, c h i 1- 

 dren's toys, 

 musical instru- 

 ments and ag- 

 ricultural im- 

 plements. Most 

 wooden picnic 

 platters and 

 bowling pins 

 are made of 

 Maple wood. It 

 is indeed diffi- 

 cult to think 

 of any c o m- 

 mon household 



-At the left, a.sh-leaved maple, in the center, sil 



sugar 



article which is not someitimes made from Maple wood. 

 The Sugar Maple deserves to be protected and propa- 

 gated for forestry and ornamental purposes. It pro- 

 duces valuable wood, yields delicious syrup and sugar, 

 lives long, furnishes excellent shade, and possesses some 

 of the cleanest and most beautiful features of any Ameri- 

 can tree. As 

 a memorial 

 tree the Sugar 

 Maple has few 

 equals, and as 

 an avenue or 

 roadside tree it 

 ranks among 

 the best. 



The Silver 

 Maple is also 

 an important 

 timber tree. It 

 is one of the 

 best known of 

 our native 

 Maples, for it 

 has a wide nat- 

 ural distribu- 

 tion and has 

 been planted 

 extensively as 

 a shade and or- 

 namental tree. 

 In summer it is 



THREE COMMON NATIVE MAPLES 



and to the right the leaf of the 



ver leaf maple, 

 maple. 



HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE FOUR IMPORTANT NATIVE MAPLES OF THE EAST 

 NAME LEAVES FLOWERS FRUIT BUDS BARK 



SUGAR MAPLE. Simple, usually 5- Appear with the Matures in au- Brown, sharp- Grayish brown on 



1 b e d, coarsely leaves. Occur in 

 toothed, pale green drooping clusters, sized 

 on lower surface. 



tumn. Medium- pointed, with 8 to twigs, gray to 



maple key 16 exposed scales, black on main 



borne on long Occur solitary stem, not scaly, 



stalks and clus- along twigs. 

 tered. 



SILVER M A PLE. Simple, 5 - lobed Appear before Matures in early Red, blunt -point- Greenish to red- 

 -;i ...u;t. , Occur ID summer. Large ed, clustered along rtish brown on 



silvery white on leaves, 



lower surface, leaf dense clusters maple 



clefts deep and along twigs. rather 



round based. wings. 



key with twigs, 

 divergent 



twigs, dark gray 

 and scaly on main 

 stem. 



RED MAPLE. Simple, 3 to 5- Appear before Matures in early Red, blunt-pointed, Reddish with 



lobed, whitish on leaves. Occur in summer. Small clustered along white dots on 



lower surface; leaf dense clusters maple key, ar- twigs. twigs, grayish and 



clefts shallow and' along twigs. ranged in short somewhat scaly on 



sharp - pointed at lateral clusters. main stems, 

 base. 



ASH - LEAVED Compound, with 3 Appear with Matures in late Short 

 MAPLE. to 5 leaflets. 



stalked, Smooth and purp- 

 leaves. Occur in summer. Medium - blunt - pointed, lish green o n 

 drooping clusters sized maple key white wooly; only twigs, grayish 

 and spikes. with converging a few bud-scales brown and fur- 

 wings; arranged visible. rowed on main 

 in long drooping stem, 

 clusters. May re- 

 main on trees over 

 winter. 



