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with, the crimson of the Hard Maples. Acer 

 rubrum Red or Swamp Maple is well named. 

 It has crimson flowers before the leaves in the 



Acer saccharin um: Hard or Sugar Maple. 



early April sunlight, scarlet keys in May, long 

 red petioles during the summer, and is unsur- 

 passed in the brilliancy of the autumnal foliage. 



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