The wood of the silver maple is soft and perishable and is seldom used.
The former name of this tree was Acer dasycarpum, but it has been changed to Acer saccharinum, the old name for the sugar maple,—Acer saccharum.
SILVER MAPLE
Acer saccharinum
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It is found growing wild along river banks from New Brunswick to Florida, and it is frequently planted in cities and towns.
Striped Maple; Moosewood Acer pennsylvanicum
A small tree, with smooth green shoots and a light green bark striped with white. The leaf-scars are opposite, and encircle the stem, and are conspicuously ridged, with two raised lines above. Smooth bud-scales, silver white leaves folded within the bud.
The moosewood is a beautiful little tree at all times, but in winter when its large leaves have fallen and the wonderful coloring of its trunk and stems is no longer concealed by foliage, one can fully appreciate its color, delicate branches and smooth stems. The trunk is an exquisite shade of green, smooth, with occasional stripes of white, and the stems and buds are also smooth and a rich rose in color.
This tree is too small for practical use, but its æsthetic qualities should cause it to be more generally planted in our parks and gardens than it is.