. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. Maples 271 A. platanoides laciuiata (150a), a most distinguished cut-leaf variety; A. Schwedleri (151), a iine Norway maple, with the foliage turning first crimson, then copper color, and A. Rcitenbachi (152), another Norway, first green, then with advance of the season turning blood-red to purple; A. World (153), a sycamore maple, with golden-hued leaves in spring. A mere oddity is the Eagle-claw Maple, A. platanoides crispum (154)-. Fig. 94. — Acer polymorphum S. & Z. Besides t
. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. Maples 271 A. platanoides laciuiata (150a), a most distinguished cut-leaf variety; A. Schwedleri (151), a iine Norway maple, with the foliage turning first crimson, then copper color, and A. Rcitenbachi (152), another Norway, first green, then with advance of the season turning blood-red to purple; A. World (153), a sycamore maple, with golden-hued leaves in spring. A mere oddity is the Eagle-claw Maple, A. platanoides crispum (154)-. Fig. 94. — Acer polymorphum S. & Z. Besides the native mountain maple and the Tartarian maple, which often grow into shrub-like forms, there is a group of maples from Japan, of two species and a long list of varieties, mostly dwarfs, which, although trees in form, are shrub-like in effect on account of their low stature. They are peculiar, and at the same time most delicate in outline and in type and hue of foliage; for color effects unique and most interesting in carefully arranged, refined plantations, or single speci- mens near the house. A. Japonicum Thunb. (155), the type ten to fifteen feet high, with bright green, merely scalloped or fluted leaves, and delicate pink flowers in early spring, is hardy to semi-hardy into Canada. It has given rise to a number of varieties, with larger, smaller, deeply cut and variously colored 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 Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923. New York Holt
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