DCHP-3

hard maple

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the sugar maple, Acer saccharum, or the black maple, Acer nigrum; also, the wood of either of these trees.

Quotations

1790
Timber, Hard Maple, Bass, and Black walnut, from this place to River la French, 22 miles.
1863
"This 'ere sugar bush is . . . mostly hard maple, an' the right age. Soft maple don't make nothing but molasses, hardly--them with whitish skin; so you are safe to chop 'em down."
1957
Hard maple and its magic contents are concentrated in the Laurentian valley, with offshoots into the Maritimes and New England.