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to the east of the Walk, then black oak, and mockernut 

 hickory about opposite the lamp-post on the Drive. 

 To the east of the black oak and hickory, a few steps 

 back, you will find another English hawthorn. 



Continuing along the path to Willink Entrance you 

 pass, in that delightful patch of wildwood which lies in 

 between the Walk and the Drive, a wonderful host of 

 small things which rise there every year to tell you 

 it is spring. Here you will find wild sarsaparilla, 

 spring beauties, jacks-in-the-pulpit, violets, wild 

 geraniums, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and 

 hundreds of others. Further along there are noble 

 tulip trees (Liriodendron tulipifera) rising to majestic 

 heights, and in June glorious sights when they are all 

 hung full of chalice-like flowers, orange and green. 

 These flowers make the seed "cones" of the tulip tree, 

 so conspicuous in winter. 



On the left, you have passed American chestnut, and 

 quite a clump of cherry birches clustered together not 

 far from a short foot-worn path striking diagonally 

 across. Several fine English elms stand almost in 

 line of each other, at wide distances, in a row parallel 

 with the Walk. You can know them by their oak- 

 like look and elm leaf. 



If you follow the path on, it will lead you beneath 

 Eastwood Arch, and on to the Boat House at Lull- 

 water, but we are not quite ready to go down there 

 yet, for a left hand branch, which breaks off here and 

 runs out to the Willink Entrance has some lovely 

 things to show us. On the way we pass English 

 hawthorns, and beneath the wide-spreading boughs of 



