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The trees of Canada
March is the month when Eastern Canada hears the old cry ‘‘Sap’s
running” — first signal that winter has passed, that frost is melting in the
trunks of the maple trees, and very soon the sap gathered in the maple sugar
bush will provide another spring harvest of maple syrup and maple sugar
candy.
The source of this famous North American speciality — the Maple tree —
is also the tree emblem of Canada. As such, the maple tree plays its
role most generously. As well as contributing the distinctive flavour of
maple syrup to the Canadian menu — this hardwood is also responsible
for a great deal of the colour which sweeps the hills of Eastern Canada
each autumn. A visitor to Canada, arriving in Halifax in late September
or early October, would find the woods ablaze. The flashes of fiery red
and deep crimson which pass his train window as he journeys west, are the
fall colours of the Maple. These scarlet Maples grow in clumps, with the
golden Birch, against stands of dark evergreens.
Douglas Fir
Pin de Douglas
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