Maples 



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It is shade-enduring and ven' shady, a good street tree for narrow 

 streets, and well adapted for grouping with conifers. 



Fig. 90. — Sycamore Maple. Acer pseiido platanus L.inn. 



A. macrophylliim Pursh. (145), the Pacific Coast or Oregon Maple, is 

 a large, rapid-growing tree, striking by its immense size of foliage; 

 hardly hardy north of Washington. 



Of the many exotic species at least four European ones are desirable, 

 and especially the first two mentioned are not only perfectly acclimated, 



