The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . w P-,, w .S 5 -° £ oo O 4-1 O The Maples line and colour and texture can be revealed by a commonmaple that grows wild in our woods. The name, moosewood, calls attention to the fact that inthe north woods the green shoots are browsed by the deer andmoose. Goose foot is from the shape of the leaf; whistle-wood from the easy slipping of the tough bark in early spring. This little tree is rare in cultivation, though it is more inter-esting and beautiful even than many an expensive exoti

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The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . w P-,, w .S 5 -° £ oo O 4-1 O The Maples line and colour and texture can be revealed by a commonmaple that grows wild in our woods. The name, moosewood, calls attention to the fact that inthe north woods the green shoots are browsed by the deer andmoose. Goose foot is from the shape of the leaf; whistle-wood from the easy slipping of the tough bark in early spring. This little tree is rare in cultivation, though it is more inter-esting and beautiful even than many an expensive exotic. Onemay easily transplant a seedling from the neighbouring woods,and it thrives in good garden soil if not too dry. A shady corneris best, but there is a good specimen growing in the sunniestpart of a garden I know. The Dwarf Maple {Acer gldbrum, Torr.) is a shrub or lowtree of bushy habit which grows on the western mountains fromCanada to Arizona and New Mexico. The leaves are variable,one type being a three-lobed, cut-toothed form not unlike thered maple leaf

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