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are clumps of Californian privet and set in between the 

 privet and the honeysuckle is a lovely ash-leaved maple 

 which leans out over the Walk, and, in early spring, 

 (April), drapes its boughs with the fairy reddish lace 

 of its flower clusters. In its blooming the ash-leaved 

 iraple is the very essence of grace and loveliness. Very 

 close to the fragrantissima and about opposite the sec- 

 ond clump of Wcigela, you will find witch hazel. Try 

 to see it in the autumn when it sets all its tiny yel- 

 low ribbons of bloom fluttering in the air. You can 

 know it by its oval lop-sided leaves. All these are 

 on the left of the Walk. On the right, about opposite 

 this point, are masses of common and purple barberry 

 and Forsythia inridissima, at the bend of the cross 

 walk which leads over to the Flower Garden. Just 

 back of these there are magnificent clumps of Japan 

 snowball (Viburnum plicatum) which in late May 

 or June are hung heavily with great balls of white 

 bloom. 



Now you have come to a second cross path, one 

 end of which (the left) runs out to a little swing 

 gate opposite Lincoln Road, the other leads across 

 the Drive to the Flower Garden. Close by the little 

 swing gate are two stalwart black walnuts. Keeping 

 on straight ahead almost opposite the carriage way 

 to the rear of the Restaurant, almost in the middle 

 of the grassy bank on your right, rises a European 

 linden (Tilia Europea) of the true type, with fine 

 leaves delicately cut and long sweeping drooping lower 

 branches. This tree has the true dusky smoky black 

 of the European linden. A little further, directly oppo- 



