. Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Plants -- Vermont. 78 Bulletin 73. from it by its longer, more deeply cut, lighter green leaves which are silvery white on the lower side. Although the silver maple flour- ishes best in moist soil, it will make vigorous growth and become a beautiful shade tree in dry loca- tions. It is not so hardy or long lived as either the red or the sugar maple in many situations. The fruits are two or three inches long, larger than in either of the other species. They mature and fall in early summer. SILVER MAPLE Leaves and fruit, X j^. RED MAPLE (soPT MAPLE, SWAM
. Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Plants -- Vermont. 78 Bulletin 73. from it by its longer, more deeply cut, lighter green leaves which are silvery white on the lower side. Although the silver maple flour- ishes best in moist soil, it will make vigorous growth and become a beautiful shade tree in dry loca- tions. It is not so hardy or long lived as either the red or the sugar maple in many situations. The fruits are two or three inches long, larger than in either of the other species. They mature and fall in early summer. SILVER MAPLE Leaves and fruit, X j^. RED MAPLE (soPT MAPLE, SWAMP MAPLE). Accr ruhrum Linu. The scarlet flowers of this maple give us the brightest spring welcome from the trees. When the red maple is a blaze of color and the other trees are bare and brown, it is consijicuous and unmistakable, and in autumn the rich coloring of its leaves makes it conspicuous again. The leaves of the silver maple turn yellow and those of the sugar maple yellow or red, but not the crimson or deep red of the red maple. It is distin- guished from the sugar n)aple by its smoother, dark gray bark and by the deeper acute incisions of the leaves al- though they are subject to much varia- tion. The fruit is about one inch long and like that of silver maple falls in early summer. This tree, common throughout eastern United States, is very generally distributed in Vermont. It is especially found in low, moist soil. The red maple yields a sweet sap, inferior, however, to that of the sugar maple. The wood is rather soft with a fine smooth grain. " Curled " maple may occur in this Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original University of Vermont. Botany Dept; Middlebury College. Burlington, Vt. : Botanical Dept. , University of Vermont
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