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mens of the noble silver fir. Close beside them, 

 to the west, rises a graceful weeping bald cypress 

 which you will do well to see in autumn. A search 

 about the base of this tree may reward you with a 

 sight of parts of their cones, for this tree bears them 

 very generously as you can see by looking at its up- 

 per branches. There you can behold them hanging, 

 little round balls, like small apples. But I don't 

 think you will find them whole, on the ground. If 

 you do you will be lucky. 



Beyond the bald cypress, close by the Walk, is the 

 Japan arbor vitse chamaecyparis (or Retiiwspora] pisi- 

 fcra, "car. filifera. It is a small evergreen with thread- 

 like leaf-sprays. 



About opposite this shrub, as you face the Lake, 

 on the border of the tongue of bank made by the fork 

 of Walks here, you will find some good specimens of 

 the white cedar (Chaincecyparis sphceroidea) with 

 glaucous-green foliage. Between the white cedars 

 and the tip of the tongue of bank, stands a red cedar, 

 and at the point of the tongue, a sapling bald cypress. 



Up the slope of the hill, back of the rhododendron 

 which you just passed a moment ago, you will find 

 a fair specimen of the Alcock's spruce. You can dis- 

 tinguish it by its leaves, which are rather flattish- 

 four-sided ; curved, bluntly rounded at the tip, deep 

 green on the npperside and whitish beneath. 



Turn now and follow the path around the terrace 

 which banks the Lake. You are now walking east- 

 ward and on your right, nearly in the center of the 

 grassy rise of bank between you and the water is 



