III. 



FLOWER GARDEN. 



Starting at Cleft Ridge Span, the Arch leading from 

 the quiet Walk beside Lullwater into the Flower Gar- 

 den, you come out upon the loveliness of this beautiful 

 spot. With its picturesque .Restaurant bowered in 

 masses of rhododendron and sheltered by lindens and 

 elms it is a most delightful place to loiter in. As 

 you come in from the Arch you pass, on your right 

 great masses of the Forsythia intermedia and sitspensa. 

 These bushes are among the handsomest of the For- 

 sythia in the Park and every spring are loaded with 

 beautiful four petalled yellow flowers. Higher up 

 on the bank, just above the first bushes of the For- 

 sythia nestles another Camperdown elm reaching down 

 to you with the exquisite grace of its slender drooping 

 branches., in its own peculiar umbrella-like manner. 



If you wish to see a handsome effect in crimson come 

 here in early autumn when the masses of Indian cur- 

 rant (Symphoricarpos znilgaris) that plume the ridge 

 of the Span have burst into flame. Beyond the For- 

 sythia is Japan maple (Acer polymorphum) , with 

 finely cut star-like leaves and delicate blood-crimson 

 flowers in small clusters in spring. In autumn the 

 leaves of this tree turn a beautiful cool crimson after 

 most of the trees have passed their glory of color and 



