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it stands by the Arch a lingering torch amid the bared 

 trees. 



On the bank beyond the Japan maple stands a dog- 

 wood glorious in early spring when it rolls back its 

 pin head flower buds and opens its white bracts, lay- 

 ing them on the air in a miracle of floating bloom. Its 

 flowers are bunched in the center of the white bracts. 

 We are now on the Walk which leads up to the top 

 of Breeze Hill and the "Old Fashioned Flower Gar- 

 den/' but we will not go up there yet, for we have some- 

 thing to see on the opposite side of the Walk. Nest- 

 ling in behind the myrtle border, hidden by the growths 

 of dwarf Japan maples, azaleas, and young rhodo- 

 dendrons, you will find the Colchicum-leaved maple 

 (Acer Latuni) which has a very beautiful leaf with 

 a faintly heart-shaped base and from five to seven 

 lobes. Near it and behind it is the peculiar hornbeam- 

 leaved maple (Acer carpini folium) with leaves almost 

 exactly like those of the hornbeam itself. The only 

 difference in the leaves of the two trees, so far as I 

 can see, is that the maple leaf is a little thicker of 

 texture. The similitude is certainly striking. 



As you turn around and come back to the Flower 

 Garden, at the edge of the turn, there are some very 

 fine Japan snowballs (Viburnum plicatum), note- 

 worthy for their beautifully ridged leaves of roundish 

 shape and pointed. They are called plicatum, because 

 the leaves have a crimped or folded appearance. The 

 Viburnum tomentosum, of which the plicatum is a 

 variety, has a similar leaf, less roundish, more elliptic 

 and long acuminate. They are beautiful shrubs and 



