Samaras of the sugar maple 



sweetness from its sap, the other because of the 

 hardness of its wood. The sugar maples of 

 New England, to me, are more individual and 

 almost more essentially beautiful than the famed 

 elms. No saccharine life-blood is drawn from 

 the elm; therefore its elegance is considered. 

 I notice that we seldom think much of beauty 

 when it attaches to something we can eat ! Who 

 realizes that the common corn, the American 

 maize, is a stately and elegant plant, far more 

 beautiful than many a pampered pet of the green- 



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