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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Sycamore maple blossoms The Norway maple is botanically Acer plata- noides, really meaning plane-like maple, from the similarity of its leaves to those of the European plane. The sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-plat- anus, which, being translated, means that old Linnaeus thought it a sort of false plane-like maple. Both are European species, but both are far more familiar, as street and lawn trees, to us dwellers in cities than are many of our purely American species. There is a little difference in the bark of the two, and the leaves of the sycamore, while almost identical in form, are darkerand thicker than those of the Norway, and they are whitish underneath, instead of light green. The habit of the two is twin - like; they can scarcely be distinguished when the leaves are off. But the flowers are totally different, and one would hardly believe them to be akin, judging only by appearances. The young leaves of the sycamore maple are lush and vigorous when the long, grape-like flower-clusters appear below the twigs. Racemes they are, botanically? and that is another truly good scientific word? while the beautiful Norway maple's flowers must stand the angular designation of corymbs. But don't miss looking for the sycamore maple's long, pendulous racemes. They seem more grape-like than grape blossoms; and they stay long, apparently, the transition from flower to fruit being very gradual. I mind me of a sycamore I pass every winter day, with its dead fruit-clusters, a reminiscence of the flower-racemes, swinging in the frosty breeze, waiting until the spring push of the life within the twigs shoves them off. To be ready to recognize this maple at the right time, it is well to observe and mark thedifference between it and the Norway in the summer time, noting the leaves ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217482783
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217482783
  • Publisher Date: 15 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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