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ropean beech, Swiss stone pine, double flowered 

 spircca (very handsome in July), fragrant honeysuckle 

 (Lonicera fragrdntissima) and fringe tree (Chionan- 

 thus Virginica), opposite the yellow-wood. We must 

 stop here to say a word about the fringe tree. If ever 

 a thing botanical was well named, this is. Come and 

 see it in flower in June when it is draped through and 

 through with beautiful fringe-like bloom, so purely 

 white, that it has won its other name Chionanthus from 

 the Greek words for snow and blossom. The white 

 petals are an inch long and very slender. The fruit 

 of the tree is a blue purple berry which the birds 

 love dearly. Beyond the fringe tree and considerably 

 to its left, standing quite alone in a lovely open space, 

 where in June it is knee deep in waving grasses, stands 

 a graceful young hemlock. It stands so conspicuously 

 alone, you cannot mistake it. The hemlock is to me 

 a tree full of grace and loveliness. Every breeze that 

 blows moves its fine fingering branches which flutter 

 tenderly and seem to reach for the passing breeze and 

 play with it as with living fingers. If you go near 

 to it, when the breeze is whispering to it, how delicate 

 is the music of its leaves. 



Passing on, along the Walk we meet another fine 

 yellow-wood, with antler-like growth of branches, 

 smooth and clean cut of limb, a delight to the eye. 

 Beyond the yellow-wood a burst of Weigela will wel- 

 come you with lovely pink and white corollas if you 

 ramble here in June and, considerably along the path, 

 about opposite a European beech, is the stump of a 

 Judas tree. It was once a beauty but disasters of 



