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for coming to them hang rubies all about them. But 

 we must say a word about the mighty tulip that rises 

 so majestically here. It is one of the handsomest 

 tulip trees in the Park and magnificently set, especially 

 if you see it from a point a little further along on 

 the Walk. It rises on its straight columnar trunk 

 and flings out its branches like a giant stretching his 

 mighty arms. Come here and see it when it sets the 

 blazonry of its seed "cones" against the clear blue 

 of the winter's sky. Pure white they gleam in the 

 sunshine, a joy to your eye, thrilling you through and 

 through with their beauty. 



Over by the Drive almost directly west of this noble 

 tulip tree, you will find a very handsome black oak 

 and just south of it, along the Drive, a good specimen 

 of scarlet oak. 



Coming back to the Walk again, you pass, below 

 the stretch of Thunberg's barberry, great masses 

 of the Spircca Van Houttei which in June are foaming 

 fountains of white bloom and further along, still on 

 your right, are clusters of the variegated Weigela 

 which, in June also, are laden with beautiful 

 funnel form flowers so fragrant that their perfume 

 is almost overpowering. How the bees love them. 

 They crawl into their fairy crypts and go to sleep, 

 rocked in their pearly walls as in a cradle, swaying with 

 the gentle zephyrs of June. On the left of the Walk, 

 just below the Weigela are fragrant honeysuckle 

 (Loniccra fragrantissiiua) bushes covered in very early 

 spring with sweet smelting frost-white flowers softly 

 tinged with yellow. Below the honeysuckle bushes 



