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a good European or tree alder. On the point of shore 

 to your right as you stand in the Summer House 

 and face the Lake, are two laurel-leaved willows, tall 

 and flinging off the sunlight from their leaves in 

 showers of white fire at every breeze. In between 

 them stands a white or gray birch. 



Along the little arm of the path from the clumps 

 of syringa (back a short distance) you passed on your 

 left as you came to the Summer House, Soulange's 

 magnolia, about opposite the sweet syringa ; cucum- 

 ber tree, opposite the red maple ; three bushes of the 

 snowy hydrangea ; and, close beside the Summer 

 House, to the left, two Norway spruces standing 

 nearly side by side. Back of these is a tall bald cy- 

 press. Compare the leaves of the Norway spruce with 

 those of the bald cypress. Note the fine feathery two 

 ranked flat leaves of the cypress as compared with 

 the four sided, rigid, curved leaves of the spruce. 



Let us go back now to the Soulange's magnolia and 

 follow the path along its course here to the west. On 

 the left are two evergreens close together. The first 

 is pitch pine, which you can identify by its persistent 

 cones with sharp prickles on the scales and its leaves 

 in bundles of three, stout and stiff. The second ever- 

 green is Scotch pine. Diagonally across from the 

 Scotch pine on the right of the Walk, is another 

 Scotch pine, which casts its branches shelteringly over 

 a handsome bush Deutsia and a fine clump of large 

 flowered syringa. These stand side by side near a 

 short indentation of the Walk. On the further side of 

 this indentation stands Norway spruce. Then the path 



