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scarlet and sugar maples, are widely different in 

 the colors individual trees assume. It may be 

 noticed that a tree with individual markings 

 always repeats these markings the same red 

 branch or branches, or the same scarlet leaves 

 tipped with green, duplicating themselves on the 

 same tree year after year. It would be well if 

 nurserymen would propagate, through grafting, 

 striking individual trees for their autumnal color- 

 ing, notably the scarlet and sugar maple. 



Without doubt the maple is king of arboreal 

 colorists, no other tree presenting so great a 

 variety of glowing hues. The scarlet maple 

 contributes more self-colors than the sugar. Its 

 leaf, however, falls quicker, and does not pos- 

 sess the delicate shadings from green to reds 

 and yellows that many of the sugar-maples do. 

 But in its first flush of scarlet, orange, or cardi- 

 nal it has no rival for distant effects. The 

 larger Japanese maple (Acer polymorphuni) 

 should always have a place, for the beauty of its 

 autumnal foliage. Indeed, the smaller Japanese 

 maples, as well, are of marked beauty during 

 autumn. Among trees that assume a bright 

 yellow, the Norway maple, elm, birch, hickory, 

 maiden-hair, ash, yellow-wood, and larch are 

 conspicuous. The sassafras has its individual 

 hues ochres, passing from yellow to deep or- 



