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give the tree an added beauty, standing out in con- 

 spicuous jet against the sky. 



Near the Walk, just beyond this beautiful larch, 

 is an American white birch, and, beside it, leaning 

 out over the Lake, a well grown Judas tree. Here 

 we have come to a spot where the Lake whispers 

 alongside the Walk for a little distance, and from 

 this open stretch you look across over the Large Lake 

 to the wooded heights of Lookout Hill. Then the 

 path runs on beneath the shade of arching trees and 

 loses itself in green peninsulas and islands floating 

 half asleep on dreaming slumbrous waters. 



As you enter the green arcade beyond the open 

 stretch of Walk, close down by the water's edge, you 

 will find two American hornbeams standing in the 

 corner of the path on the right. Beyond these are 

 two trees which look very much like willows. But 

 they are quite different. They are oleasters (Elceagnns 

 aiigustifolia) and if you pass them in July, you may 

 see them in bloom. Then amid their silvery gray- 

 green leaves you may find their fragrant spicy flow- 

 ers. These are little tubes with four petals yellow 

 on the inside but silvery white on the outside. The 

 leaves of the trees are narrow (lanceolate) and sil- 

 very white on the undersides, with a decided scurf. 



Beyond the oleasters, on the right of the Walk are 

 tulip tree, ash-leaved maple, sweet syringa, European 

 larch, large flowered syringa, European larch again, 

 red maple, European bird cherry, European larch 

 again, European hazel, American hornbeam. These 

 are bv the border of the Walk, and, at the hornbeam, 



