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Just beyond the Sonlangcana, the path forks again. 

 The left branch slips around by clumps of Hercules's 

 club (Aralia spinosa), common snowball (Viburnum 

 opulis, var. sterilis) , Weigela, to meet the Walk, above 

 spoken of, which follows parallel with Flatbush 

 Avenue. The right branch glides along by easy turns 

 to meet the Battle Pass Walk. This bends by bushes of 

 sessile-leaved Weigela, oleaster, well grown Austrian 

 pines, hemlocks, under boughs of cherry birch which 

 hang heavy with the gold lace of flowering catkins in 

 the spring. This path bends now into the Walk 

 which runs on down behind the rocky ramparts which 

 an historic plate commemorates as Battle Pass. If you 

 follow it from this point you will wander by a good 

 sized Corsican pine on the right and a well grown 

 Kentucky coffee tree, on the same side, a little beyond. 

 About opposite the Kentucky coffee tree is a beautiful 

 bush of the bridal wreath spiraea (Spircra pruuifolia) 

 and almost at the point of intersection of this path 

 with the Walk by the English oaks, spoken of above, 

 stands an historic old black walnut "Which," says one 

 of the Park reports, "Is the only one left of a former 

 group which occupied the high ground near Valley 

 Grove Road." 'Close by is the historic weeping willow 

 (Saliv Babylonica) above spoken of, which is also the 

 only one remaining of a former group. About oppo- 

 site the black walnut, you will find on the right of the 

 Walk, English walnut, distinguishable by its com- 

 pound leaves of from five to nine leaflets which are 

 indistinctly serrate. 



The ledge of rock which bears the Battle Pass tablet 



