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3o8 Woodcraft Manual for Boys its strength. A cubic foot weighs 35 lbs. Little use for weather work. Famous fw shedding its bark as well as its leaves. Leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada to the Gulf. Red-bud, or Judas Tree {Cercis Canadensis) Small tree of bottom lands, rarely 50 feet high; so called from its abundant spring crop of tiny rosy blossoms, coming before the leaves, the latter 2 to 6 inches broad. "Judas tree" because It blushed when Judas hanged himself on it (Keeler). Its wood is dai^, coarse, and heavy. A cubic foot weighs 40 lbs. Maryland to Iowa and southward. Sugar Maple, Rock Maple, or Hard Maple {Acer saccharuvt) A large, splendid forest tree, 80 to 120 feet high; red in au- tumn. Wood hard, strong, tough, and heavy but not durable.