Show rayy baff ta I 1 V ahal SHADY TREES 1 I am going to tell you said the old mople tree a little family fa history yo you must u 1 t want knowd to know a all i 1 about other maple trees A d AN 1 14 and also the work laj I 1 you are expected to do it will be a tittle little like school e h whispered one of the leaves leases we want to learn they 0 nil a said a I 1 d as they spread out a little tile more tell us moth er maple so mother maple vy V y began tell us mother we belong to maple the sugar family she said our trees are often us used ed in making furniture and our sap gives wondrous maple sugar which boys and glos and ladies indies and gentlemen love so much and when the autumn comes we all dress up in the most wonderful costumes of red and orange and flaming guld gold but we ve will not talk about the au dumn while the summer Is here that will come later on the work tor for us to do now Is to see that tha t each leaf lea f grows to be as big tind and beautiful as possible for we have been known as one of the nicest of shade trees we keep the sun from shining down too hard 0 on n P people ople during the hot summer m months 0 n t 1 I 1 s we mike make shady avenues and streets and driveways mr air sun la is a perfectly splendid old chap but in the summer he gets so very excited that he Is very warm indeed and the people love the shade we can give ghe so you ou see leaves you must not be e lazy azy 1 the leaves rustled and shook their heads no mother maple we will not be lazy we have many cousins continued mother maple there Is cousin sycamore whose family comes from far away cousin sycamore Is n not of very strong and its flowers are late in coming out now cousin norway naile maple li Is quite different A fine strong tree Is cousin norway and a tree that mind soot and dust and smoke emoke or insects many of cousin Nor ways children tire anre planted where there are city streets and where there Is a great deal of smoke there Is cousin box elder which Is a relation because it has clusters of keys key or seeds which hang on all winter cousin striped maple Is very beautiful i i with its streaked white tines lines in the winter oftentimes its bark Is used by boys for 1011 sties and in the al autumn aam n cousin striped maple Is yellow nod and very handsome As A s tor for BI mr r Houn mountain tain maple well cousin mountain jv Is so named because it cousin sliver the strength to maple to stand up by itself and its stems are like vines and cling cousin silver maple Is very beautiful but ls Is not strong enough to stand the city cousin silver likes parks which are given over to trees and greens green and plants and then there are the red maple mople and the black maple cousin black maple Is almost exactly like us but its branches are orange colored anil and its keys kess spread more widely than ours do cousin red maple loves the swamps and la Is a beautiful tree as tire are all his children but im glad we belong to the sugar maple family so do we mother maple said tile the leaves as they all promised to be and beautiful find and strong |