. Eyes and no eyes. you will find that its leaves aresticky. This is because all maples have a greatdeal of very sugary juice or sap in them, whichrises up and oozes out of the leaves, either fromcracks made by the leaf being dry, or because someinsect has, bitten a hole. You must have seenthe little green blight-insects which cling on rosetrees and other plants, and suck out their and thousands of these, besides otherbugs (such as the cuckoo-spit, which you findcovered with froth), suck the sap of trees. Sothrough the cracks they have made the sugaryjuice of the sycamore or the
. Eyes and no eyes. you will find that its leaves aresticky. This is because all maples have a greatdeal of very sugary juice or sap in them, whichrises up and oozes out of the leaves, either fromcracks made by the leaf being dry, or because someinsect has, bitten a hole. You must have seenthe little green blight-insects which cling on rosetrees and other plants, and suck out their and thousands of these, besides otherbugs (such as the cuckoo-spit, which you findcovered with froth), suck the sap of trees. Sothrough the cracks they have made the sugaryjuice of the sycamore or the maple oozes outover the leaves. The fruit of these trees is very curious. It iswinged like the keys of the ash, but two fruitsgrow together, so that the two wings spread outlike those of a moth (see p. 73). The wings of theField Maple fruit are spread more widely thanthose of the sycamore. Maple wood is very useful for furniture. Agreat many of our desks and wardrobes aremade from American maple. Maple sugar, which. 1. ARBUTUS, OR STRAWBERRY TREE, IN FLOWER AND FRUIT 2. LIME TREE IN FLOWER. (See oagea 69 and 74.) liV THE PABK. 73 American children love, conies from the sugarysap of an American species. Another tree which you will find in the parkis the Walnut, which was brought to England bythe Romans. It is a large,spreading tree with a roughtrunk and strong, crookedbranches. Its leaves are cutlike those of the ash, > but theyare muchlarger. Theyh a V e apretty redtinge whenthey areyoung, andalways havea strongsmell whenthey arecrushed. These trees grow so quickly thatthey are twenty feet high in ten years, (^,and then begin to flower and make sycamoiu; twigfruit. They go on growing till they ^^^th ns fruitare about seventy feet high. Youcan see the long catkins hanging from the tree inApril just as the leaves are opening. The stamencatkins are at the tip of last years tAvigs. Butthe little grouj) of flowers which will grow into
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