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ropean ash. Note the differences of these last two 

 trees. 



Come back now to the point where we left the 

 Flower Garden, at the foot of the second flight of steps 

 and follow the arc of the walk border toward the 

 Lake. Right in the corner of the border is sycamore 

 maple and back of it about half way up the hill, is a 

 small Cedriis Dcodara or Indian cedar with beautiful 

 light glaucous green, larch-like leaves. Passing on, 

 south-westwards, following the Walk, when you come 

 about opposite the bust of Mozart, if you go over to 

 it and look at the evergreen that stands just behind 

 it you will find a very interesting thing to study. It 

 is the Cunning hamia Sinensis and gets its name from 

 the botanical collector, J. Cunningham, who discovered 

 its species in China about 1700. It is certainly a 

 beautiful conifer (cone-bearer), with long sweeping 

 leafsprays which give the tree something of a palm- 

 like look. Go up and examine its leaves, for they 

 are very handsome. These leaves are fully two inches 

 long, flat and pointed at the tip. From the tip they 

 gradually widen as they approach the stem, to which 

 they are attached in a peculiar way which botanists 

 term dccurrent, that is, running along the stem be- 

 yond the point of fastening. Near the Cunninghamia, 

 north of the Mozart Statue is a little evergreen shrub 

 with an appearance very much like that of the Irish 

 yew. It is the Chinese Podocarpus and its leaves are 

 linear-lanceolate and very noticeably decurrent. 



In this vicinity the rhododendrons are very hand- 

 some. Come here in June when they are in their 



