. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY This is our only maple with compound leaves, and so ac- customed are we to simple leaves for the maples that were it not for the keys hanging in graceful clusters from the branches we should question its right to be a maple. IJut just as certainly as an acorn in- dicates an oak, so does a ma|5le key characterize a maple. The Ash-leaved Maple is a handsome tree with spreading branches. Its habitat extends as far east as Cayuga Lake, New York, west to the foot- hills of the R
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY This is our only maple with compound leaves, and so ac- customed are we to simple leaves for the maples that were it not for the keys hanging in graceful clusters from the branches we should question its right to be a maple. IJut just as certainly as an acorn in- dicates an oak, so does a ma|5le key characterize a maple. The Ash-leaved Maple is a handsome tree with spreading branches. Its habitat extends as far east as Cayuga Lake, New York, west to the foot- hills of the Rockies, north to Winnepeg and south to Flor- ida. Compared with its com- panions on the river bottoms it is a small tree, and like the sugar maple it can flourish in the shade. The tree is rare east of the Appalachian range and beyond the Rockies it undergoes a mountain change and appears in California as a different variety. It grows rapidly and is now largely planted in the treeless west, and, strange to say, this lover of water accepts the climatic change and flourishes. Like the silver maple there is no touch of red in its autumnal coloring, its leaves become a pure pale yellow before they Keys of Box Elder, .'leer jicgunJo. 86. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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