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Nordmann silver fir. Just south of the Nordmann 

 you will find a clump of three Austrian pines bunched 

 close together very near a lamp-post. The little coni- 

 fer just south-east of the lamp-post is not Austrian 

 pine, but Swiss stone pine (Pinus Cembra). 



Let us now come back to the path again and continue 

 on south. At about the crest of the rise, on your 

 right, you will find black oaks, two fairly near to- 

 gether, tall, strong, majestic. You can know them 

 by their hard, dark, grayish bark, and strong, 

 close ridges. Beyond, you pass common locust 

 Robinia pseudacacia, just over the brow of the rise, 

 as the path begins to descend. A little further on, if 

 you are walking in dogwood days, you will have a treat 

 indeed in the little clump of red-flowering dogwood 

 (Cormis Honda, var. rubra). There are several of 

 them here, on the left of the Walk, and they are very 

 dainty and delicate, with beautiful rose-red flower 

 bracts rolled back in all their tender loveliness. Just 

 beyond these dogwoods you meet the peculiar Cam- 

 perdown elm with its umbrella shape, several of which 

 you have already seen over by Cleft Ridge Span. You 

 can't mistake this tree and it will serve as a land- 

 mark to find the things about it. Almost opposite 

 to it, in about the middle of the grassy slope, between 

 you and the Drive, is a fine mockernut hickory (Carya 

 touicntosa) and a little below the hickory on the 

 slope still, is a goodly Austrian pine, which will serve 

 as another landmark. Just across from the Austrian 

 pine, just west of it on the very edge of the Drive is 

 an excellent young Nordmann's silver fir. Coming 



