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132 its bark as well as its leaves; leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada to GuLf.

Black or Yellow Locust, Silver Chain (Robinia pseudacacia) A tall forest tree up to 80 feet high; leaves 8 to 14 inches long; leaflets 9 to 19, 1 to 2 inches long, pods 2 to 4 inches long, 4 to 7 seeded. This is the common locust so often seen about old lawns.

Red, Scarlet, Water, or Swamp Maple ('Acer rubrum) A fine, tall tree, often over zoo feet high. Noted for its flaming crimson foliage in fall, as well as its red leaf stalks, flowers, and fruit, earlier. Leaves 2 to 6 inches long.

all the maples it produces sugar, though in this case not much. Western North America.

The sugar maple is a larger, finer tree.

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A fine tree on moist soil. Seventy to 80 or even 130 feet high. Yellow in autumn; noted for being last and first