. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY. Key of Red Maple riibruin. side b)- side, one may have large, thin, five-lobed leaves, and the other small, thick, three-lobed leaves, or both forms may be found on different parts of the same tree, and sometimes even on the same branch. The flowers appear very early, only those of the silver maple precede them. Perfect flowers occasionally occur, but generally the staminate and pistillate flowers are produced on separate trees, although a branch with staminate flow- ers c
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. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY. Key of Red Maple riibruin. side b)- side, one may have large, thin, five-lobed leaves, and the other small, thick, three-lobed leaves, or both forms may be found on different parts of the same tree, and sometimes even on the same branch. The flowers appear very early, only those of the silver maple precede them. Perfect flowers occasionally occur, but generally the staminate and pistillate flowers are produced on separate trees, although a branch with staminate flow- ers can be found on a tree on which the flowers are pistillate, and individual pistil- late clusters on a staminate branch. If the tree is very red, one may be certain 4cfr 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. These are an accidental and fortuitous arrange- ment of the woody fibre, and as there is no marked outward indication of these varieties, only experienced woodsmen can detect them in the living tree, which they do from some slight peculiarities of the baik. 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 country 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 they confronted him in his woodpile, and his anger and dismay may be imagined as he bewailed the stupidity of his workmen. 80. 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