TREES AND SHRUBS 



COMMON MAPLE, Acer campestre. 



Thickets and hedgerows. Will grow in dry situations, and under the 

 shade of other trees. May, June. 



The Maples, of which there are about thirty species in cultivation, succeed 

 best in a well-drained, loamy soil, and they prefer a sheltered position. They 

 are propagated by layers in October ; grafting in March ; budding in August ; 

 and seeds sown in a sheltered position in October. 



Flowers green, { in. diam., regular, entomophilous or anemophilous, 

 lower ones staminate, upper bisexual, sometimes proterandrous, in a short, 

 erect, terminal, loose corymb-like panicle of cymes, pedicels short, hairy ; 

 Sepals 5, linear-oblong, hairy ; Petals 5, narrower than sepals ; Stamens 8, 

 inserted on a hypogynous disk ; Ovary 2-lobed, glabrous or downy, style 1, 

 stigmas 2 ; Fruit a samara, 2-seeded, wings horizontal, slightly curved, linear- 

 oblong, 1.1 in. long, red in late summer, brown when ripe, glabrous except 

 at seed-vessel, which is pubescent. 



Leaves opposite, palmately 5-lobed, lobes and sinuses rounded, crenate, 

 exstipulate, rarely 4 ins. across, petioles red. Autumn tints rich yellow, 

 red, golden-brown. 



A deciduous tree, 20-30 ft. Branches spreading ; Twigs brown ; Bark 

 corky, deeply fissured, brown, Buds ovate, scales green, ciliate ; Wood soft, 

 close-grained, beautifully veined. 



Native of Britain. Known also as Field Maple ; common name from 

 A.S. mcepel, mapul, whence mapul-treo, mapuhler, the maple-tree ; Latin 

 name from acer, eris, maple-tree, and campester, tris, tre, belonging to a 

 field — campus, an open field. 



Leaves often hoary with Maple blight or mildew (Uncinula Accris), or 

 spotted with Maple-leaf Blotch (Rhytisma punctatum). Small pimple-like galls 

 produced by Mites (Eriopfiyes maerorhyncus and E. macrochclus). 



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