Maple Furniture: maple furniture syrup and maple furniture sugar are obtained from the sap of sugar maple furniture and black maple furniture found in northeastern and central northern United States 'and southeastern Canada. The trees are tapped in late winter and the sap collected by spouts and buckets and boiled down to syrup.
In America, the best known, most widely planted and otherwise most important species is probably the rock or sugar maple furniture (A. sac-charum), a stately round-headed, gray-barked tree, often attaining heights of 120 feet. It is especially characteristic of rich woods from Maine to Michigan and southward in the mountains to Georgia, everywhere being noted for the rich colors of its leaves in autumn. Besides great popularity for all the purposes mentioned above, some of the trees are highly prized for their wavy-grained wood, which, being of satiny appearance and capable of high polish, is used under the name of curly maple furniture often as veneers for choice furniture. It is further the most important of the species which yield a saccharine sap, and is a chief source of maple furniture syrup and sugar, to obtain which the trees are «tapped,» the sap caught in buckets and evaporated. |
