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He was the one with the bright idea of bringing inside the remains of a broad-leaved maple tree in our backyard.

With the broad-leaved maple it gives character to the deciduous growth near the northern boundaries of California, where it reaches eighty to ninety feet in height, and a trunk diameter of four to five feet.

All hail to the broad-leaved Maple!

Then hail to the broad-leaved Maple!

The principal river-side trees are poplar, alder, willow, broad-leaved maple, and Nuttall's flowering dogwood.