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sided in shape. Cut a leaf across and you have a 

 perfect triangle. 



On the right of the Walk, close beside the Drive 

 and just back of the lamp-post there, you will find 

 a well grown hawthorn, very handsome in May, with 

 abundant white flowers, in showy heads. It is the 

 black or pear hawthorn, (Cratcugus touientosa). Near 

 it, but overarching the Walk is the interesting shad- 

 bush (Amclanchier Canadensis) or June berry. It 

 blooms in late April and tips up its little white, cherry- 

 like blossoms in racemes at the ends of its branches, 

 before the leaves are fully out. They are very dainty 

 and fairy-like and sights you love to see when so many 

 limbs are bare and wintry looking. The Amclanchier, 

 speaking of winter, has a mark by which you can know 

 it afar off. Once get in your eye its silvery gray bark 

 marked with fine streaking lines and you will never 

 forget the shadbush. To the right of the shadbush, 

 near the Drive are European flowering ashes (Fra.vi- 

 nus ornus) easily picked out by their short squat 

 trunks, brittle, grayish branches and compound 

 leaves. The leaflets have their edges crinkled 

 and curled. Passing on, we come to masses of 

 Wcigcla, covered in June with sweet smell- 

 ing rose-pink flowers. Back of the masses of 

 Wcigcla, half hidden by them, a young striped maple 

 (Acer Pennsyk'anicnni) lifts up its slender stretch of 

 bark which it is worth while to stop and look at. Do 

 you see those pretty fine lines striping it so gracefully. 

 From these it gets its common name. Its leaves are 

 broad, three lobed, with beautiful, long pointed tips. 



