guessed it to be the Japan cedar (Cryptomeria 

 ica.) There are several of them along here and I 

 love to see them sway in the wind, gathering their 

 close hard branches about them and bowing with 

 stately and courtly grace, then lifting in noble dig 1 

 nity, tall and fair and straight, swaying gently with 

 a silent majesty that is truly regal. 



Beyond this point as you follow the path eastward, 

 are variegated English yew, whose dark, flat, sharp- 

 pointed leaves you have, no doubt, long since grown 

 to recognize at a glance; then Catesby's Andromeda 

 (differing from the Andromeda you met up in Vale 

 Cashmere, by its sharper, more taper pointed leaves) 

 which nestles close beside another Cryptomeria Japon- 

 ica. A little beyond the Cryptomeria, near the Walk, 

 is Chamcccyparis (or Rctinospora) pisifera. You 

 can know it by its flat leaf-sprays which branch in 

 rather gridiron manner. Further on you will find 

 mountain laurel with shining, glossy elliptic leaves, 

 then rhododendron with rosy-lilac flowers, and 

 just about opposite the point made by the 

 forking of the two branches of the Walk, you 

 will see two conifers of special note and beauty. 

 They stand side by side and are about of the same 

 height. You will know them at once by the decided 

 bluish cast to their silvery-green foliage. If you ex- 

 amine this, you will see that their needles first follow 

 along parallel with the stem and then bend sharply 

 up from it at right angles, making a kind of comb 

 of the branch. There you will have the key to their 

 identity and will know them to be very good speci- 



