ON "THE POINT" — SECOND 

 EXCURSION 



"The knottie maples, pallid birch, hawthornes, 

 The horn-bound tree that to be cloven scornes, 

 The dyer's shumach, with more trees there be, 

 That are both good to use and rare to see." 



— William Wood. 



STANDING on the grand stairway at the north 

 end of the Mall, and looking northeastward 

 across the esplanade, one sees a narrow strip of 

 land projecting into the water, which is commonly 

 called " The Point." Leaving the fountain on the left, 

 passing the group of magnolias, the austere cedar of 

 Lebanon, and the boat-house with its numerous pleasure- 

 fleet, and turning to the left, we reach the little tongue 

 of land jutting into the Lake. No spot of the same area 

 in the Park is so stocked with interesting trees ; for in a 

 length of scarcely two hundred feet one may find 

 twenty-three species, single and clustered, viz. : sassa- 

 fras, flowering dogwood, wild black cherry, yellow 

 locust, black haw, swamp white oak, nettle-tree, white 

 elm, mocker-nut hickory, white birch, paper birch, 

 cockspur thorn, European bird-cherry, scarlet oak, 

 hornbeam, European yew, Norway spruce, smoke-tree, 

 hemlock, alder, aspen, pin oak. 



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