A STORY OF SOME MAPLES 



difference between it and the Norway in the 

 summer time, noting the leaves and the bark 

 as suggested above. 



Another maple that is different is one vari- 

 ously known as box -elder, ash -leaved maple, or 

 negundo. Of rapid growth, it makes a lusty, 

 irregular tree. Its green- barked, withe -like 

 limbs seem willing to grow in any direction — 

 down, up, sidewise — and the result is a pecu- 

 liar formlessness that has its own merit. I 

 think of a fringe of box- elders along Paxton 

 Creek, decked in early spring with true maple 



Flowers of the ash -leaved maple 



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