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corner of Felt and Orne streets, the largest I have seen 

 in Salem, and one nearly as fine west of the sugar 

 maple referred to at Fairfield and Lafayette streets. 

 This tree is easily distinguished by its fruit from the 

 sugar maple, although on young trees and in shady 

 situations the leaves resemble each other closely. The 

 fruit, however, is larger than that of the sugar maple, 

 and the "keys," a peculiar form of fruit borne by all of 

 the maples, diverge widely from each other. The bark, 

 too, on large trees, differs. On the sugar maple it is 

 rifted, while on the Norway maple it is close with fine 

 reticulations. 



The sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) is an old- 

 world tree long cultivated here. It bears flowers in long 

 drooping clusters resembling those of the striped maple, 

 but larger. There are many of these trees in the city, 

 the largest being in the rear of Mr. George Peabody's 

 house, on Washington square, and at Mr. George F. 

 Brown's house, on the northern side of Dearborn street, 

 the western tree. A remarkably large tree of the vari- 

 egated leaved sycamore maple stands in the yard at the 

 western side of Mr. F. H. Lee's house on Chestnut 

 street. It shows at the base of the trunk the curious col- 

 lar sometimes noticed on apple and pear trees, caused by 

 an unequal growth of the graft and original stock, and 

 indicates, of course, a grafted tree. The negundo, or 

 box-elder, (Acer negundo) is found sparingly in Salem. 

 There is one in Mr. Hutchinson's yard, 130 Bridge street. 

 The largest I have seen are on Lowell steeet, Peabody, 

 at No. 132, and there are several large trees between 

 that number and 100. A walk up North street through 

 Dearborn and Felt streets will give any one an oppor- 

 tunity to study the five maples found growing as street 



