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ACER • Maple 



O TREE is so lavish with its beauty and protection and few, if any, are so valu- 

 able from an economic and ornamental standpoint. While the rapid growth of trunk 

 and limb increases its value from year to year it also enhances the worth of the property on 

 which it grows and home and garden it protects. In it are contained all the virtues re- 

 quired of a specimen for the lawn, for the rural roadside or the city street. It unfolds 

 its blossoms, varied in hue from yellowish-green to vivid scarlet, at the first blush of spring, 

 and in summer its verdant foliage furnishes deep, refreshing shade. In the autumn it 

 assumes the most brilliant polychromatic tints ranging from yellow through orange to 

 deep red and scartlet. It is capable of withstanding the most savage onslaughts of winter 

 gales. A fall of snow upon the ground acts as a foil that heightens by contrast the archi- 

 tecture of this, one of the grandest and worthiest of all the shade trees. 



ACER dasycarpum (Silver Maple). A superb 

 representative of the Maple family. Frequently 

 grows at least a hundred and twenty or thirty feet 

 in height, with a big horizontal spread. Limbs are 

 slender and lengthy with the terminal twigs inclined 

 to droop. 



A. ginnala (Amur Maple). A graceful little 

 Maple, not exceeding twenty feet in height. Good 

 foliage, turns scarlet in fall. 



A. palmatum. See Japanese Maples. 



A. platanoides (Norway Maple). A good- 

 natured, beautiful tree whose excellency as a quick 

 shade producer is well known to skilled gardeners. 

 Bright greenish-yellow blossoms in the early spring 

 followed by a rich verdant mass of large flat leaves 

 on its dome-shaped crown. Perfectly at home in 

 the rural garden or in sedate rows along suburban 

 avenues. 



A. platanoides schwedleri (Schwedler Maple). 



Similar to Norway Maple in habit, but has purplish- 

 crimson foliage in the spring. 



A. pseudoplatanus (Sycamore Maple). A fine 

 lawn tree with beautiful deep green foliage. A 

 vigorous grower, forming a large spreading head. 

 Thrives in exposed situations. 



A. rubrum (Red Maple). One of the best known 

 Maples. Its scarlet budding in March largely con- 

 tributes to the glory of the opening of spring. The 

 gradual appearance of new brilliant red leaves fur- 

 ther enhances its beauty. 



A. saccharum (Sugar Maple). One of the truly 

 great trees native to this country. In the spring 

 every branchlet puts forth tassels of pendant yel- 

 low blossoms and attractive light green leaves. In 

 the autumn the foliage is unsurpassable in splendor, 

 ranging from yellow through orange to deep red 

 and scarlet. Its vigorous ascending-spreading 

 branches form a bell-shaped crown. The Indians 

 first utilized it as a sugar producer, later the Colonists 

 became aware of its worth and now due to its asso- 

 ciation with the history and romance of the north- 

 eastern part of this continent it has become firmly 

 rooted in the affections of many Americans and 

 Canadians. 



Trees have about them something beautiful and 

 attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change 

 their places, are witnesses of all the changes that 

 take place around them; and as some reach a great 

 age, they become, as it were, historical monuments, 

 and like ourselves they have a life, growing and 

 passing away, — not being inanimate and unvarying 

 like the fields and rivers. 



WlLHELM VON HUMBOLDT. 



The Sugar Maple is noted for its striking autumn 

 coloring. 



