8 BIRDS OF THE 



Street side is the opening of the subway 

 with all the noise and stir accompanying 

 the incessant entrance and exit of cars, yet 

 these conditions prove not to be serious 

 disadvantages in the situation. 



Within its bounds the Garden contains 

 many trees which have attained large 

 growth, including American, English, and 

 Dutch elms, white, weeping, and laurel- 

 leaved willows, cottonwoods, silver, syca- 

 more, sugar, red, and Norway maples, 

 American, European, purple-leaved, and 

 weeping beeches, white and Lombardy pop- 

 lars, lindens, horse-chestnuts, white, purple- 

 leaved, and cut-leaved weeping birches, 

 double-flowered hawthorns, tulip - trees, 

 gingko trees, Kentucky coffee-trees, a red 

 mulberry, a honey locust, a koelreuteria, a 

 sophora, a catalpa, a European larch, and 

 still others. Weeping elms and mountain- 

 ashes, double-flowered cherries and peaches, 

 Chinese and Parkman crabs, redbuds, 

 magnolias in variety, spindle- trees, Siberian 

 pea-trees, weeping sophoras, and many 

 others too numerous to mention constitute 



