MAPLE FAMILY 
NORWAY MAPLE 
Meer platanoddes 
The beautiful Norway Maple standing by the curb-stone 
is a common sight in our city streets. Its roots strike deep 
and spread laterally, this enables it to hold its own in the 
struggle with city environments. It comes to us from 
Europe, its range there extending from Norway to Switzer- 
land. The leaves have a marked resemblance to those of 
the sugar maple, in form, but are thicker in texture and 
darker incolor. They remain upon the tree fully two weeks 
longer than those of our native maples and become yellow 
or fall with little change of color. The petioles are long and 
when broken exude an acrid milky sap which quickly coag- 
ulates. This peculiarity enables one to determine the tree 
with little difficulty. ‘he greenish flowers appear with the 
leaves ina short corymbose raceme ; the fruit, also borne in 
short racemes, is a key with widely divergent wings. 
The tree reaches the height of sixty feet, develops a broad 
round head, and becomes strong and sturdy. Its winter 
buds are large and red; its branchlets at first are green, 
later they become reddish brown and shining. 
SYCAMORE MAPLE 
Acer pseudo-platanus 
This most beautiful of European maples is also planted as 
an ornamental tree, but it does not seem to take kindly tc 
our climate, failing to become either large or long-lived in 
the United States. Its leaves resemble those of the sugar 
maple in general form, but are much darker green in color 
and of thicker texture. 
The green flowers appear with the leaves, are about the 
size of a currant blossom and borne in long, drooping, com- 
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