then several European flowering ashes, all easily 

 known by their short, squat trunks, gray brittle-looking 

 branches and compound leaves. Here, too, just beyond 

 the flowering ashes, are more Koelreuterias, weeping 

 English yew and well-grown Sophora Japonic a (one 

 just at the bend of the border, another close to the 

 Arch, on the right hand side). The Sophora Japonica 

 is an exceedingly interesting tree, and you meet it all 

 over the Park. It is well, therefore, to learn it early. 

 It belongs to the great pulse family, Lcgiuninoscc, as 

 its flowers and fruit show ; has greenish bark and 

 compound leaves which by the beginner are often mis- 

 taken for those of the locust. In August this tree puts 

 forth its bloom great bunches of yellowish white 

 flowers, which later develop into glossy green string- 

 like pods that show very conspicuously. As you pass the 

 last Sophora, the Walk bends in sudden graceful curve 

 to the right toward the Cleft Ridge Span and just 

 around its corner you meet a very handsome Retino- 

 spora sqnarrosa. Its soft, silvery green foliage is 

 very beautiful, and it is rising in an exquisitely sym- 

 metrical cone. At one time I thought this shrub was 

 surely going to die, but it has recovered its vitality, 

 and since I have known it has almost doubled its 

 height. Beyond it and up the bank is another Camper- 

 down elm, and close beside the top of the Arch another 

 Sophora. 



