Along the Lakeside — Third Excursion 



about four hundred feet southeast of the Belvedere. 

 Pendulous varieties of the maple, mulberry, mountain- 

 ash, and elm are also cultivated, and all being of small 

 size are serviceable for the smallest lawns. Perhaps the 

 best as regards curious foliage is the weeping Russian 

 mulberry {Morus tartarica penduld)^ whose leaf is one of 

 the most ornate among trees. A few of these and of the 

 weeping ash and elm would do more to diversify the 

 Park than any number of European varieties whose dif- 

 ferences are purely microscopic. 



Nature has also been coaxed into that extremely dis- 

 sected form of foliage known as the cut-leaved, beautiful 

 examples of which in Japanese purple-leaved maple, su- 

 mach, oak, and white birch are in the Park. Though 

 botanically only *■ ' varieties, ' ' they are of far more pro- 

 nounced effect than many of the distinct species, and are 

 one of the most important innovations in landscape 

 gardening that modern times have produced. Another 

 quite as important is the purple-leaved foliage, with 

 which the Park is well supplied ; if one will look over 

 the wall in the vicinity of East Seventy-second Street 

 — the best spot in the Park for studying purple and cut- 

 leaved foliage — he will find admirable examples of purple 

 or rose -purple leaves in white birch, Japanese and syca- 

 more maples and beech, all within a hundred feet of each 

 other. Some of the purple beeches in these grounds 

 are simply magnificent. The Japanese plum, also in the 

 Park, is becoming popular as a purple-leaved dwarf tree. 



Mossy-cup Oak. — Near the weeping beeches at 

 ** Bow-Bridge," across the path, one must note the fine 



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