CH-Cer sacdjarinum. Natural Order: Aceracece—Maple Family. 
ANADA and the New England States produce the Rock 
Maple in great abundance, forming in some districts a greater 
part of the forests. It grows to a great height, has a some¬ 
what rough, gray bark, and in summer a fine crown of foliage, 
which in fall takes on itself the most brilliant hues that 
greet the eye in an autumn landscape, sporting through all 
shades from yellow to crimson, as if it had caught and imprisoned 
the glorious colors of a sunset sky. The Black Maple is another tree 
of the same class, both yielding the sap from which the sugar bearing 
their name is manufactured. 
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OU know my wishes ever yours did meet: 
If I be silent, ’tis no more but fear 
That I should say too little when I speak. 
—Lady Carew. 
'T'HE maples in the forest glow; Like living coals the red leaves burn; 
On the lawn the fall flowers blaze; They fall, then turns the red to rust; 
The landscape has a purple haze; They crumble, like the coals, to dust; 
My heart is filled with warmth and glow. Warm heart, must thou to ashes turn? 
— Sylvester Baxter. 
AH! what delight ’t would be, 
^ Would’st thou sometimes by stealth converse with me! 
How should I thy sweet commune prize, 
And other joys despise! 
Come, then! I ne’er was yet denied by thee. 
—John Norris. 
T ABJURE your sight; 
-*■ Ev’n from my meditations and my thought: 
I banish your enticing vanities; 
And, closely kept within my study walls, 
As from a cave of rest, henceforth I’ll see 
And smile, but never taste your misery. 
— Goffe. 
TF thou canst feel, 
A Within thy inmost soul, 
That thou hast kept a portion back, 
While I have staked the whole; 
Let no false pity spare the blow, 
But in true mercy tell me so. 
— Adelaide Anne Procter. 
