V. 

 IRVING STATUE TO OCEAN AVENUE ENTRANCE. 



In this ramble we start at the Irving Statue, op- 

 posite the Flower Garden, and walk south to Ocean 

 Avenue Gate. Along this Walk there are many in- 

 teresting things to see. 



Just below the Statue, at the left of the Walk, as 

 you face south you find the queer single-leaved ash 

 (Fraxinus excelsior, var, monophylld). It is queer, 

 because, as a rule, ash trees have compound leaves. 

 You can know it at once by its thick, rough, heavy 

 looking bark. A glance at this alone gives you the hint 

 of its kinship with Fraxinus. Try to see it in the 

 early spring, when it sends out little spurts of fine 

 purplish bloom, peculiar sights on its bare branches, 

 looking very much like small tufted plumes. Below 

 the single-leaved ash is a handsome European beech, 

 easily known by its smooth gray bark, and wavy, hairy 

 margins of its leaves which are not toothed. Below the 

 beech is a good sized young Swiss stone pine (Finns 

 Cembra). This tree is doing well here and in winter is 

 very handsome with its rich dark green, lightened a lit- 

 tle by the glaucous bloom on its leaves. If you ex- 

 amine the leaves of this tree you find that they are 

 clustered five in a fascicle and are distinctly three 



