The Big Easy at Duke Gardens Built in February 2017, Doughtery used red maple and sweet gum saplings from Duke Forest to build this piece that stands about 40-feet-by- 20-feet wide and 18-feet tall.

When fertilized with a dash of patriotic fervor rooted in next year's semiquincentennial celebration of our country, a scenario blossoms on the origin of the largest red maple in New York. The New ...

However, long ago the early pioneers, mesmerized by the beauty of this tree in the fall of the year, brought Red Maple saplings from the woods to plant on the old homestead.