. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY. Kev of Red Maple. -. 7cV ruhnim. side by side, one ma}' have large, thin, five-lobed leaves, and the other small, thick, tbree-lobed leaves, or both forms may be found on different parts of the same tree, and sometimes even on the same branch. The llowers appear ver}' earl)', onlv chose of the silver maple precede thcni. Perfect flowers occasionalh' occur, but generally the slaminate and pistillate flowers are produced on separate trees, although a bi'anch with staminate f
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY. Kev of Red Maple. -. 7cV ruhnim. side by side, one ma}' have large, thin, five-lobed leaves, and the other small, thick, tbree-lobed leaves, or both forms may be found on different parts of the same tree, and sometimes even on the same branch. The llowers appear ver}' earl)', onlv chose of the silver maple precede thcni. Perfect flowers occasionalh' occur, but generally the slaminate and pistillate flowers are produced on separate trees, although a bi'anch with staminate flow- ers can be found on a tree (jii which the flowers are pistillate, and individual ]iistil- late clusters on a staminate branch. If the tiee is very red, one may be certain that the flowers are pistillate, but if yel- lowish they are staminate. All the maples show what is called the curled and bird's-eye varieties. 'I'hese are an accidental and fortuitous arrange- ment of the woody fibre, and as there is no marked outward indication of these varieties, only exiierienced woodsmen can detect them in the living tree, which they do from some slight peculiarities of the bark. It is said that these forms are found only in old trees. Such lumber is now very valuable for the interior furnishings of rooms, railway-cars, and steam- ship saloons. How many such trees were destroyed in the early days through ignorance or indifference no one knows. I re- call a countrv home where the kitchen-stove was fed one entire winter with the most beautiful curled and bird's-eye ma- ple, carefully cut into cordwood eighteen inches in length. Of course the owner knew nothing of the existence of these trees until thev confronted him in his woodpile, and his anger and disnia}' may be imagined as he bewailed the stupidity of his Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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