or August, when the trumpet creeper (Tecoma or 

 Bignonia radicans) pushes out its long scarlet horns 

 and calls the humming birds. 



As you leave the Arbor, the path bends to the left 

 and runs beside East Drive southward. To your left 

 are azaleas, Deuzla gracilis, purple leaved barberries, 

 Japan quince, bridal wreath spiraeas, dogwood and, 

 climbing high in air at the point where a branch path 

 leads down to the Pool, a fine Akebia quinata, with 

 clover-like leaves (notched at the top) and plum- 

 colored flowers in the spring. On your right you have 

 passed copper beeches (near the drive-crossing), fern- 

 leaved beech, diagonally opposite the young dogwoods 

 on the other side of the path, fragrant honeysuckle 

 with its cusp tipped leaves, silver bell (Halesia tctra- 

 ptera) calle'd so from its seed, which is four (tetra) 

 winged (ptera). 



Take now the little branch path at the left, down a 

 series of steps to the Pool at the bottom of Vale Cash- 

 mere, passing on your right a weeping European ash. 

 If it is syringa (more properly Philadelphus) time, 

 the way is through a veritable snowdrift of blossoms. 

 Philadelphus coronarius is here, and Philadelphus 

 grandiflorus with large ovate leaves, pointed and 

 toothed, smooth and quite downy and sweeping re- 

 curving branches which at once mark it from the 

 coronarius. 



At the bottom of the series of steps is the cozy Pool. 

 If it is early spring the Azalea amccua, truly called the 

 ''lovely," spreads a mass of crimson on the point of 

 land over there back of the fountain. Here, close to 



