Maples 271 
A. platanoides lacuntata (150a), a most distinguished cut-leaf variety; 
A. Schwedlert (151), a fine Norway maple, with the foliage turning 
first crimson, then copper color, and A. Rezienbachi (152), another 
Norway, first green, then with advance of the season turnmg blood-red 
to purple; A. Worlez (153), a sycamore maple, with golden-hued leaves 
in spring. A mere oddity is the Eagle-claw Maple, A. platanoides 
crispum (154). 
Fig 94 — Acer polymorphum S. & Z 
Besides the native mountain maple and the Tartarian maple, which 
often grow into shrub-like forms, there is a group of maples from Japan, 
of two species and a long list of vaneties, mostly dwarfs, which, 
although trees in form, are shrub-like in effect on account of their low 
stature. They are peculiar, and at the same time most delicate in 
outline and in type and hue of foliage; for color effects unique and most 
interesting in carefully arranged, refined plantations, or single speci- 
mens near the house. 
A. Japonicum Thunb. (155), the type ten to fifteen feet high, with 
bright green, merely scalloped or fluted leaves, and delicate pink flowers 
in early spring, is hardy to semi-hardy into Canada. It has given rise 
to a number of varieties, with larger, smaller, deeply cut and variously 
colored foliage. 
