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carry great balls of clustered flowers, pale Nile green 

 at first, then changing to white at maturity. 



If you keep to the right, the Walk will lead you 

 around by the south-eastern slope of Breeze Hill and 

 it is this course we now take. Just beyond the Vibur- 

 num plicatum is a very handsome Japan maple (Acer 

 polymorphum) with small star-shaped leaves. This 

 is a tree of considerable size, but all around the border 

 near it, you will find many varieties of Japan maples, 

 most of them small shrubs, two, three, and four feet 

 high. Among them you will find the cut-leaved (Acer 

 polymorphum, var. dissectum); the purple cut-leaved 

 (Acer polymorphum, var, dissectum atro pur pure urn) 

 with very delicate, finely cut leaves. This last is fairy- 

 like in its fineness, its leaves hanging in the most deli- 

 cate filaments. A little further along nestles the snow- 

 berry shaded by the over-arching glooms of beautiful 

 weeping European silver lindens. Back of the snow- 

 berry, with bending lance-like leaves which make you 

 think of thick sedge grass, lies a rich, cool bank of 

 Hemerocallis or day-lily which shows orange-hued 

 flowers in the summer. This brings us to a flight of 

 stone steps which ascends to the Walk leading to 

 the top of Breeze Hill. We shall not go up, but will 

 keep on, following the right hand border of the Walk. 



Almost the first thing to greet you, beyond the steps, 

 is a European or English yew (Taxus baccata) with 

 dark green foliage and ragged trunk. The leaves of 

 the yew are noticeably pointed and droop somewhat 

 like damp feathers. A little back and beyond the yew 

 is a tall evergreen of broad base and conical top. This 



