. St. Nicholas [serial] . But all fine trees do not belong to the oakfamily; indeed, we have in the maple group alist which gives the oak group a very closerace. From the dwarf Japanese maples withtheir purple foliage, which is so delicate andfeathery that one wonders how it can ever with-stand the ele-ments, up to thesycamore-maple,whose leaves areoften quite afoot long and sostrong and big asto give it the nick- ||name false syca-more, this groupis of constant in-terest and useful-ness, with not ablack sheep inthe family. It is to this raceof trees that weare indebted fornearly all the cools
. St. Nicholas [serial] . But all fine trees do not belong to the oakfamily; indeed, we have in the maple group alist which gives the oak group a very closerace. From the dwarf Japanese maples withtheir purple foliage, which is so delicate andfeathery that one wonders how it can ever with-stand the ele-ments, up to thesycamore-maple,whose leaves areoften quite afoot long and sostrong and big asto give it the nick- ||name false syca-more, this groupis of constant in-terest and useful-ness, with not ablack sheep inthe family. It is to this raceof trees that weare indebted fornearly all the coolshade in our swel-tering cities; infact, these treesmustbepossessedof unusual vital-ity, because, al-though of deli-cate and refinedfoliage,they seembetter able tostand the smokeand gases oflarge cities thanany other group,with a few ex-ceptions. The Japanese maples were, as their nameimplies, imported from Japan, and are notice-able on lawns and in the city parks for theirreddish-purple coloring and the deep-cut FIG. 26. YOUNG SILVER MAPLES. These indentations extend almost to the stemof the leaf, cutting it into five or seven distinctfingers, which in some cases are so slender asto give it the appearance of a feather ratherthan a leaf. Prospect Park, Brooklyn, has aparticularly large and fine collection of thesetiny trees or shrubs. The red or swamp maple,the wild species of our woods, has a small leaf,very easy to distinguish. It is divided intothree main points, each of which is cut up bysmall teeth along its entire edge. They arefamous for their brilliant red colors in the highest pinnacle of tree development, how-ever, seems to have been reached when thesilver maple was formed in natures of all the good points in a physically per-fect, high-strung, blooded horse, apply thesepoints to tree life, and we have the silvermaple. From the ground up to the topmostleaflet we find expressed in every atom of thetree strength, vitality, purity, beauty,
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