TREES AND SHRUBS 



young, nearly glabrous when old, 2-5 ins. long, 1-53 ins. wide, white mottled 

 with green, petioles 2-.*{ ins. long. Autumn tint yellow. 



A deciduous tree, 80-40 ft.; Branches stout, wide spreading; brancklets 

 pale green, glabrous ; Bark pale grey or light brown, deeply furrowed, short 

 thick scales ; Buds acute or obtuse, scales tomentose ; Wood soft, weak, 

 creamy-white. 



Introduced from U.S.A., 1688. The variegated varieties are more 

 usually grown. Synonymous with Negundo fraocimfolium and A r . aceroides. 

 Known as Ash-leaved Maple. 



ITALIAN MAPLE, Acer opuKfoUvm. 



Parks, gardens. May. 



Flowers greenish-yellow, small, in a nearly sessile, lax, terminal, branched 

 corymb; pedicels hairy, short; Ovary smooth; Fruit a samara, large, bright 

 green, glabrous, thin ; wings broad, horizontal. 



Leaves opposite, variable ; on stronger spray and near base of young 

 shoots they are lai^ge, nearly orbicular, cordate at base, 5-lobed, 1-2 obtuse 

 serratures ; at ends of branches more pointed and more deeply divided, 

 glabrous, deep green above, pale and downy beneath, especially the veins 

 and axils of ribs, 4 ins. long, 5 ins. broad ; petiole long. 



A deciduous tree, 8-20 ft. ; dense round head ; lower branches slender, 

 much divided, horizontal ; Wood hard and compact ; best of Maples. 



Native of Corsica, Pyrenees, and Alps; introduced from Fiance, 1823. 

 Often called French or Guelder Rose-leaved Maple. 



JAPANESE MAPLE, Acer palmatum. 



Shrubberies. Requires protection from cold winds in spring. May. 



Flowers in a 5-7 flowered umbel ; Fruit a samara. 



Leaves palmate, 5-7-lobed ; lobes oblong, acuminate, serrated. 



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