weeping 1 beech (about opposite the two Oriental 

 spruces) and not far from the weeping beech, clumps 

 of the large racemed dwarf horse-chestnut (Pavia 

 uiacrostachya) or long racemed buckeye, so handsome 

 when in bloom in July. It is then covered with tall 

 spires of white bloom. 



Near this spot the Walk sends off a short arm to the 

 right, to Endale Arch. We do not turn off but keep 

 along the path we are on, which climbs by a gentle 

 rise toward the Arbor at Vale Cashmere. 



Continuing then, from the two handsome copper 

 beeches which stand side by side on the south- 

 erly side of the offshoot to Endale Arch, you pass, 

 on the right beautiful young English hawthorns 

 (Cratccgus oxyacantha) , which you can know by their 

 small cut-lobed leaves wedge-shaped at the base and 

 by their thorns ; clumps of Viburnum opulis or bush 

 cranberry ; American basswood with large heart-shaped 

 leaves, Bumald's spiraea, which bears rose-colored 

 flowers in midsummer and graceful silver bell or 

 snow-drop trees (Halesia tetraptera). You can tell 

 these last by the streaking lines through their bark. 

 These trees are very beautiful in the spring when they 

 are hung full of white bell shaped flowers (whence 

 their name) just as the leaves appear. So pure, so 

 fairy-like they seem, you can easily set them tinkling 

 with a music never heard on sea or land the flower 

 herald-music of the spring ! Further along are Euro- 

 pean flowering ash, English field maple (Acer cam- 

 pe sire), European linden, smoke tree (Rhus cotinus), 

 Cephalonian silver firs (two of them very near to- 



