with flowers in flat-topped clusters and in Septem- 

 ber it is hung full of blue black sweet berries. In 

 form it looks like a hawthorn but you will not find 

 any thorns on it. Not far from the black haw a good 

 sized silver maple flings over the Walk the dancing 

 shade of its finely cut leaves. The silver maple has 

 become so common as a street tree in cities that 

 many pass it by with but little notice. Yet what a 

 beautifully cut leaf it has. Close to the silver 

 maple stands a red maple. You will know 

 it by its three pointed or lobed leaf. There are 

 several of these red maples very close together here 

 and very beautiful they are in early spring, when their 

 boughs are covered with dainty crimson flowers. Then 

 you can see and know them afar off. A little further 

 along stands a fine Norway maple, equally handsome 

 in spring when it sets its brilliant green corymb-like 

 flowers in an almost uncontrollable burst of bloom 

 all over its branches. Then come dogwood, so lovely 

 in May, and European linden of the broad-leaved vari- 

 ety, (Tilia Europcea, var: platyphylla) , then a well 

 grown fringe tree and then a plump silver linden ( Tilia 

 Eur opera, var. argentea or alba) with well defined su- 

 gar-loaf form, light ashen gray or mouse gray, smooth 

 bark, and large cordate or sub-orbicular leaves, smooth 

 dark green on top, but very white and silvery on the 

 undersides. You cannot mistake this tree. Its limbs 

 spring out from the trunk low down. It is a very hand- 

 some tree and when the wind plays with its large 

 silvery leaves, the whole tree fairly burns with life 

 and light. Beyond you will find the pendulous variety 



