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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
others make little progress after a few years, except in deep and 
strong soils. 
The sugar maple ( saccharinum ) makes one of the most com- 
pact and regular of round-headed trees, forming a dense shade 
very agreeable to recline under in a hot summer’s day. It is, 
however, a slow grower compared with the scarlet or silver- 
leaved, and should be planted only in rich, deep, and well- 
drained soils. 
The moosewood or strip ed-barked maple is a small-growing 
variety, extremely pretty from its stripes of white and black 
upon the young green wood. It is adapted to the outside of 
groups, or to positions where a tree of only medium size is 
desired. 
The large-leaved maple ( macrophyllum ) is as yet scarce, 
although introduced many years. It is of rapid growth, of a 
spreading, upright habit, and of great beauty from its immense 
size of foliage. 
As a street shade, or for public parks, and especially as a tree 
to plant near the house where shade combined with stateliness 
and character are desired, the sycamore maple {pseudo platanus) 
lia£ claims worthy of special notice. It is rapid in growth, with 
foliage broad and of a rich green, intermediate in appearance 
between the buttonwood or sycamore and the sugar maple. 
In autumn, when dying off, it becomes a rich golden yellow. 
The Norway maple {platanoides) is another variety desirable. 
More upright, not as spreading as pseudo platanus, but with 
large, broad leaves, not of as rapid growth, nor forming so large 
a tree. 
The variety commonly known as English maple {campestris) 
is of slow growth, forming a very stocky round-headed tree 
fifteen to twenty feet high, admirably suited for planting on 
some little rounded knoll or as the center of a group of low- 
growing shrubs. 
