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oped in good loam. They are preferably used as single specimens, 
but make fine avenues, if not planted too close together. 
Closely allied, and similar in all respects, is the species of the Gulf 
States — 
A. floridanum Chapm. (139), fit only for southern planting. 
A. rubrum Linn. (140), Red Maple, of similar range as the sugar 
maple, is a most satisfactory tree from every point of view. Similar 
in form to the sugar maple, although perhaps less stiff and regular in 
branch habit, its beauty lies in the dark green foliage, pale to white 
underneath, turning every shade of red, and in the bright scarlet flowers 
and fruit which appear in early spring before the leaves. It is adaptive 
to swampy situations as well as to the driest. If properly placed, it is 
a sturdy and a more rapid grower than the former. 
A, saccharinum Linn. (141) (dasycarpum), Silver Maple, resembles 
in some forms of foliage the red maple, although otherwise it is quite 
different from the former two, being irregular in outline with a rather 
open crown and a straggling, spreading, yet graceful branch system, 
with long slender, often pendent, branchlets. The foliage is deeply 
cut into many acutely-pointed lobes, pale green above, silvery white 
beneath, and very variable in outline, but always most elegant. It is 
a medium-sized tree, but rapid grower, especially in rich loam, where it 
develops its best form and shadiest crown, but it thrives also in sandy 
and gravel soils, with a slimmer development. Unfortunately its long, 
weak branches are easily broken by storms, hence its beauty is of lim- 
ited duration except in sheltered places. By systematic pruning this 
trouble can be checked to some extent. 
A most pleasing, cut-leaved variety, A. Weirit (141), vies with the 
cut-leaved birch in elegance, but, like all such freaks, is to be used 
with discretion. 
A. Pennsylvamicum Linn. (142), Striped Maple, Moosewood, a 
small, slow-growing tree of upright, handsome, oval form, with large, 
dark green, flaccid foliage, long pendent racemes of flower and fruit 
and green-striped bark, is one of the most attractive small trees of north- 
ern range, the most shade-enduring of this very shade-enduring genus. 
By grafting on other maples, it can be made to grow to much larger 
size. It needs rich soil for best development. It is fine for large 
border plantations. 
A.spicatum Lam. (143), Mountain Maple, occurs generally as a shrub, 
with small, pleasing foliage, turning to a variety of colors in autumn. 
