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NATURE STUDY 



green, delicately lined with bronze, a leaf somewhat re- 

 sembling that of the sngar maple, and frnit with widely 



divergent wings; 

 the sycamore ma- 

 ple (A. pseudo- 

 plataims), called 

 in England the 

 sycamore, with 

 its green incon- 

 spicuous flowers, 

 oddly winged 

 fruit, and rather 

 sycamore-like 

 leaf. 



The Sugar or Kock 

 Maple {A. saccliarinum) 

 deserves a paragraph to 

 itself. Its wood is very 

 hard, and extensively 

 used in cabinet work. 

 The most beautiful form 

 which it takes, called, 

 from obvious resem- 

 blances, bird's-eye mar 

 pie and curly maple, is 

 caused by rather rare Red Maple. 



conditions, in which the wood vessels become twisted or 

 deflected from their naturally straight course. 



