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it falls. You can see little maple trees starting to grow 
by the roadside, or even along city sidewalks or in lawns. 
The samaras of the early flowering maple trees fall 
quite early in the summer, 
but there are other maples 
whose samaras remain on 
the trees until autumn. 
Maples make beautiful 
shade trees, and some species 
grow to a large size. One 
of the largest and most 
beautiful of them is the 
sugar maple, which is not 
only valuable as a shade 
yields delicious maple syrup 
sap. 
The bark of this tree is " tapped," 
that is, a hole is bored through it into 
the wood beneath, early in the spring, 
