Show value of maple some trees are useful as well ornamental and the maple Is one of them ot its wood the best charcoal 1 made its young shoots are so tough that they use them as whips in france As it stands cutting and trimming well it is good both or hedges and for the strange devices of the tree gardener when gathered green ald dried the leaves and tender shoots make winter food tor cattle then it yields sugar two american kinds being especially valuable in this respect perhaps it is best known and admired as a furniture wood because of its fine grain and beautiful veins and the lovely polish it takes the old romans made their best tables of it and the french employ it largely for articles turned in the lathe mazer bowls or alms dishes used to be made out of the knotty roots eliy ly polish ed and 11 er mounted |