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and its rapid growth make it a favorite ornamental tree. It 

 attains its finest development when planted by the margin of 

 pond or stream where its roots can reach water, but it grows 

 well in any good soil. Easily transplanted, and more readily 

 obtainable at a low price than any other tree in general use 

 for street or ornamental purposes. The branches are easily 

 broken by wind and ice, and the roots fill the ground for a 

 long distance and exhaust its fertility. 



PLATE LXXII. ACER SACCHARINUM. 



1. Leaf-buds. 



2. Flower-buds. 



3 Branch with sterile flowers. 



4. Branch with fertile flowers. 



5. Branch with sterile and fertile flowers. 



6. Sterile flower. 



7. Fertile flower. 



8. Perfect flower. 



9. Fruiting branch. 



I 



Acer Saccharum, Marsh. 



Acer tiaccharinum, Wang. Acer barbatum, Michx. 



ROCK MAPLE. SUGAR MAPLE. HARD MAPLE, 

 SUGAR TREE. 



Habitat and Range. Rich woods and cool, rocky slopes. 

 Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, westward to Lake of the Woods. 



New England, abundant, distributed throughout the 

 woods, often forming in the northern portions extensive up- 

 land forests ; attaining great size in the mountainous portions 

 of New Hampshire and Vermont, and in the Connecticut river 

 valley ; less frequent toward the seacoast. 



South to the Gulf states ; west to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, 

 and Texas. 



Habit. A noble tree, 50-90 feet in height ; trunk 2-5 feet 

 in diameter, stout, erect, throwing out its primary branches 



