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naturally in Topsfield and elsewhere, always in the 

 neighborhood of streams, and there are many fine white 

 maples along the winding course of the Ipswich river. 

 There are large red maples on Broad street above Pick- 

 ering street, in front of Mr. G. F. Brown's house on 

 Dearborn street, by Mr. Gallup's new house on Essex 

 street, and on the corner of St. Peter and Church 

 streets. As a rule the male and female flowers are 

 home on separate trees, and this accounts for the dif- 

 ferent appearance of the red maples at the time of 

 flowering. On the fruiting trees the flowers are deeper 

 red, and change gradually to the red conspicuous fruit, 

 while the flowers on the male trees have a delicate 

 feathery appearance and soon fall. In the autumn the 

 leaves of the white maple turn yellow ; those of the red 

 maple red, or red and yellow. 



The red maple, as a rule, is not a tall tree, but it 

 often attains a great circumference of the trunk. A 

 tree which stood by Norwood mills in Ipswich, some 

 dozen years ago, was over fifteen feet in circumference 

 at five feet from the ground, and a famous tree felled 

 in 1876 near Gage's ferry in Bradford, measured by the 

 Georgetown botanist, Mrs. G. N. S. Horner, was 

 twenty-six feet in circumference at four feet from the 

 ground, probably the largest tree in girt in the 

 county, and one which should not have been sacrificed 

 to the axe. 



The sugar maple (Acer saccharinum) , or rock 

 maple, for it is the same thing, is found in almost 

 every street, and with its rounded sinuses in the leaves 

 can only be confused with the Norway maple (Acer 

 platanoides) ; but the Norway maple shows yellow 

 flowers just as the leaves appear, while the sugar maple 



