State Board of Forestry.' 307 



ware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); Fountain (Brown); 

 Franklin (Haymond) and (Meyncke); Gil)son (Schneck); Hamil- 

 ton (Wilson); Jay (M'Caslin) ; Jefferson (Barnes), (Coulter) and 

 (Young); Knox (Ridgway) and (Thomas); Kosciusko (Scott); 

 Marion (Wilson); Miami (Gorby); Monroe (Blatchley); vicinity of 

 New Albany (Clapp); Noble (Van Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey 

 (Schneck); Putnam (MacDougal); Steuben (Bradner); Tippecanoe 

 (Cunningham); Vigo (Blatchley); Wabash (Benedict and Elrod). 



Additional records are : Montgomery (Evans) ; Putnam (Grimes) ; 

 Tippecanoe (Coulter); Allen, Clark, Porter, Posey, Putnam, Scott, 

 Steuben and Wells (Deam). 



Economic uses. Wood heavy, light or reddish-brown, not strong, 

 close-grained. Used for frame lumber, furniture, staves and head- 

 ing. 



Horticultural value. Adapted to a moist rich soil, grows rap- 

 idly, transplants easily, crown oval, when crowded the branches 

 grow long and are easily broken off, leaf period long. It is fre- 

 quently used for ornamental shade purposes. The use of the red 

 and silver maple has been discouraged by the appearance of the 

 maple borer, cottony maple scale and tussock moth. The soft 

 maples are more frequently attacked by the borers than the hard 

 maples. 



3. Acer saccharinum Linnaeus. Soft Maple. Silver Maple. 

 White Maple. Plate 111. Bark of young trees and branches 

 smooth and gray, becoming on older trunks reddish-brown, freely 

 splitting into thin scales; twigs brownish to red, turning up at the 

 end; leaves truncate or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, deeply 

 5-Iobed, the middle lobe frequently 3-lobed, the lobes pointed and 

 sharply toothed, 6-14 cm. (23^-53^2 inches) long, hairy beneath 

 when young, smooth on both surfaces at maturity, medium green 

 above, whitish beneath, petioles long; flowering period March or 

 April; flowers greenish, in clusters in the axils of the leaves of the 

 previous year, the staminate and pistillate in separate clusters on 

 the same or different trees; fruit matures in late spring, green, 

 smooth and more or less divergent at maturity, 4-7 cm. (13^-2^ 

 inches) long. 



Distribution. New Brunswick, southern Ontario, South Dakota 

 to Florida. Rare on the Atlantic coast. Frequent to common in 

 all parts of Indiana in wet ground. Grows in situations similar 

 to that of the red maple. 



The pubHshed records of the distribution are as follows: Car- 

 rol (Thompson) ; Cass (Benedict and Elrod) ; Clark (Baird and Tay- 



