THE MAPLES. : "9 
beauty. The seeds are about half as large as those of 
the sugar maple, are a deep red, and are ripe about the 
same time. 
BOX ELDER, OR ASH-LEAVED MAPLE. 
A very ornamental tree, and in favorable situations 
reaches the height of fifty or sixty feet; it grows along 
the banks of streams; its growth is astonishingly rapid. 
It is very short-lived in dry soil. Sugar is made from 
its sap. This and its rapidity of growth render it a very 
desirable tree for planting for the production of sugar. 
It is a singularly beautiful tree while standing alone; it 
has a round, symmetrical top, and very deep, dense foli- 
age. A large proportion of its seed is worthless; it is 
planted and raised the same as the sugar maple. 
THE MOOSE-WOOD OR STRIPED MAPLE. 
This is a very small tree, generally from ten to twen- 
ty feet in height. It is found among the Alleghanies, 
and from Maine to Wisconsin and southward. It has 
deep, dense, heavy leaves, and smooth, light-green, striped 
bark. The wood is of a more durable character than 
the other maples, the only objection to it being its infe- 
rior size. It, therefore, is only of use as an ornamen- 
tal tree. I would suggest grafting to any one that in- 
tends raising it, as it is said to reach three or four times 
its ordinary size when grafted. 
THE NORWAY MAPLE. 
This tree, when first starting to grow, is very tardy 
for the first two or three years, but afterwards is of very 
rapid growth. Its foliage is more dense, its leaves come 
earlier in the spring and retain their verdure later in the 
fall than the sugar maple; hence it has some slight ad- 
vantages over the sugar maple as an ornamental tree. 
