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specimen of this tree. That you may find it readily, 

 if you skirt the southerly end of the Green Houses 

 and follow the line of nursery frames, south, for about 

 half way between the Green Houses and the southerly 

 end of the nursery frames, you will see this tree 

 standing, pretty well hidden by neighboring growths, 

 a little north of a point where an imaginary line 

 would strike, if the Walk at the southerly end of the 

 Green Houses' beds were carried westward to the 

 nursery frames. If you know the purple-leaved Eu- 

 ropean hazel, the Oregon maple stands just northwest 

 of it. But I think you will have no difficulty in find- 

 ing it, for its leaves are very large, eight to ten inches 

 broad. These broad leaves are cut into five (often 

 seven) deep lobes, and the lobes themselves are cut 

 again into sections that make them rather three-lobed. 

 They have something of the look of a large-sized leaf 

 of the Oriental plane tree. On the undersides they 

 are pubescent, when young, of a pale green hue. The 

 tree flowers in the sprihg, with erect panicles of fra- 

 grant yellow flowers, densely woolly, appearing after 

 the leaves have opened. The yellow fruit is also very 

 hairy and has large broad wings which spread at an 

 angle of about forty-five degrees. The specimen be- 

 fore you here is the only one in the Park, and it is 

 to be hoped that it will be allowed to stand here, 

 even if it falls into decline, for it is a rare tree to see 

 in our section. Along the Pacific coast it grows to 

 magnificent proportions, developing into a noble and 

 imposing tree, r^aghing a height of a hundred feet 

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