ever. The European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) 

 has a leaf very much like that of the cherry birch. 

 You can tell the difference between the European and 

 the native hornbeams by their seed clusters. The 

 European is halberd shaped, the native, half halberd 

 shaped. 



About opposite the hornbeam on the other side of 

 the path, close to the southern corner of the Shelter, 

 is a pretty Washington thorn, and beyond it, a 

 Kcclreiitcriq, and then some very beautiful yellow- 

 woods (Cladrastis tinctoria), with fine, smooth, gray- 

 ish bark, almost satin-like in the strong sunshine. 

 They are goodly trees, well grown and healthy. You 

 may know them by their long, compound leaves, made 

 up of from seven to eleven oval leaflets. These trees 

 are lovely sights in June when they are hung full of 

 sweet smelling flowers, pure white, in long strings or 

 racemes, very much like the flowers of the common 

 locust (Robinia pscuddcacia). Just beyond the yel- 

 low-woods is a well-grown European hazel (Corylus 

 ai'cllana), which is lace hung in spring, with dull 

 rusty brown catkins that have a grace and beauty 

 all their own. Indeed, I know of no fairer early 

 spring sight than that of the lace-hung hazels vailing 

 themselves while yet the trees are bare. About op- 

 posite the hazel, on the right of the path, you will 

 find a noble growth of the sweet pepper bush (Clethra 

 aluifolia). This gets its name, alnifolia, by the way, 

 from its close resemblance to the alder (Alnus) leaf. 

 The sweet pepper bush speaks for itself in July. Then 

 it sends up little fingers of delicate frost-white bloom 



