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may be known easily by their chunky, sturdy appear- 

 ance and tufting habit of bunching their leaves. As 

 you entered you passed on the left Swiss stone pine, 

 near the corner of the stone wall and beside it Rct- 

 inospora pisifcra, var. plumosa aurca (golden plume- 

 leaved). Nearer the Walk there is a variety of this 

 plume-leaved Rctinospora which is not golden, and 

 beside it, close by the Walk and about opposite the 

 Turkey oak is a fine Rctinospora squarrosa which you 

 can know by its bluish silvery-green foliage. It is 

 called squarrosa because its leaves set out squarely 

 from the branch. Just a little beyond, the Walk di- 

 vides, one fork (the left) running close to the ridge 

 that hides the screaming trolley-cars as they plunge 

 down the hill to Flatbush, and the other fork following 

 along by the Drive until it meets the Long Meadow 

 from under Endale Arch. 



If you take the fork by the ridge, the left-hand one, 

 you will pass Austrian pine, on the point made by the 

 fork of the Walk, Eagle's claw maple (Acer plata- 

 noidcs, -car. laciniatum), a cut leaved variety of the 

 Norway maple, and called "Eagle's claw'' from the 

 resemblance of its drooping leaves to the talons of 

 that bird. On the left you have passed Kcclrcutcria 

 and Scotch elm (Uluins inontana) about opposite the 

 Eagle's claw maple. Continuing, you pass, on the 

 right, a beautiful white birch (paper or canoe birch) ; 

 two or three little Nordmann silver firs, two very well 

 formed Oriental spruces, Cornelian cherry, hemlock, 

 Judas trees and Japan quince. 



On the left of the Walk YOU will find a handsome 



