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gether, with symmetrical conical tops), Kentucky cof- 

 fee tree, Bhotan pine (noticeable by reason of its four 

 trunks grown together at the base), Sophora Japonica 

 (Japan pagoda tree), called so from the Arabian 

 Sophcra, a tree with pea-shaped flowers, and, further 

 on, hemlock. On the left you have passed Scotch 

 pines (Pinus sylvestris), European silver lindens (Tilia 

 Enropcea, var. argentea), about opposite the smoke 

 tree, Nordmann's silver fir, dwarf or Mugho pine 

 (Pinus montana, var. Mughus), barberry, a good hop 

 hornbeam or iron wood (Ostrya Virginica), opposite 

 the Cephalonian silver firs, and very near the point 

 where the Walk forks at the left, to go down to Rose 

 Garden, a Japan snowball and a fine Japan quince. 



Just before you get to the Arbor look out, on your 

 left, for a shrub which perhaps you may have already 

 noticed, late in the autumn, hung full of small deli- 

 cate berries, of a beautiful violet shade, strung all 

 along its slender branches. This is the French mul- 

 berry (Callicarpa Americana), called so from Greek 

 words meaning beauty and fruit. You will find it on 

 the left as you approach the Arbor just beyond the 

 fork of the Walk to the Rose Garden, and beside a 

 clump of bridal wreath spiraea (Spircca prunifolia). 

 The bridal wreath spiraea is well worth seeing in May 

 when it hangs all along its slender branches pure white, 

 flowers in little umbels. It is very beautiful then and 

 well deserves its name. 



If you do not care to go through the Arbor, take 

 the turn of the path which leads off to the left just 

 before you come to the Arbor and slips by a gentle 



