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AMERICAN FORESTRY 







ROCK MAPLE AND BEECH. 



thrives even with considerable tapping 

 each year. I do not fancy it for a 

 lawn tree principally because of the 

 hard, strong leaf, which, after passing 

 through the yellows and reds of the 

 frost moon, drops to the lawn and will 

 remain there all winter without disinte- 

 grating and must be raked off at con- 

 siderable expense on a large sward. 



There is a better maple for that pur- 

 pose, which we will come to later. 



The sugar maple is a fall seeder, the 

 keys being set at about 90 degrees, 

 whereas those of the Norway maple, 

 also a fall seeder, are set in a straight 

 line. To raise seedlings the keys should 

 be collected in the fall and worked into 

 a bed of rich loam, leaving them all 



A VERMONT SUGAR MAPLE. 



