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is a Cephalonian silver fir (Abies Cephalonica) and 

 may be known by its stiff brush-like leaf sprays and 

 sharply pointed needles. Some elegant specimens of 

 this fir you passed on the first chapter's ramble, near 

 Vale Cashmere. Back of the Cephalonian silver fir, 

 up the slope of the hill are graceful hemlocks. 



Close by the border of the Walk again you pass 

 Japan ground cypress of the variety pisifera and a little 

 further along, very near the corner of the border of 

 the Walk where a couple of steps drop to a small circle 

 of path, you will find Polish juniper. It has been 

 pruned until it is almost a stump, but its foliage is 

 healthy. It varies from our common juniper in its 

 dense, crowded, close-growing stiffer leaves, which are 

 very silvery on the upper sides. If you go down these 

 few steps and follow the arc of the path to the second 

 flight of steps up Breeze Hill, close by the corner you 

 will find Chinese arbor vitse .and by it a well clothed 

 Swiss stone pine. The pine you can easily identify 

 by its leaves in bundles of five. About halfway up 

 the flight of steps to Breeze Hill, close by the steps, is 

 another hemlock, and at the top of the steps, by its 

 right hand corner, is Cornelian cherry. Beside the 

 Cornelian cherry, to the right of it, stands an Ameri- 

 .can elm. Directly in front of the top of the steps 

 are two bushes of nine-bark. On the left of steps, 

 along the path leading into Old Fashioned Flower 

 Garden, are black walnut, American white ash, and 

 black walnut again near the spot where the path opens 

 out into the Old Fashioned Flower Garden. Opposite 

 this black walnut are European flowering ash and Eu- 



