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takes another turn to the right, out toward the water, 

 and if you go along there you will find, on your right, 

 common elder, about half way between the Norway 

 spruce and the water, and close beside the elder, bald 

 cypress. At the extreme end of this little reach of 

 path stands a golden willow leaning out over the 

 water. 



If you come back now to the Norway spruce last 

 mentioned, about due south-west of it across the Walk, 

 stands Mugho pine. East of the Norway spruce, 

 across the Walk, a Nordmann silver fir is fighting 

 hard for its life. Its flat leaves, notched at the tip, and 

 two white lines on their undersides tell you that is a 

 Nordmann. Beyond the Nordmann, directly back of 

 a little squarely cut bight of the Walk, on your left 

 now, is another Mugho pine, and at the extreme left- 

 hand corner of this bight you will find cherry birch. 



Let us now go back and pick up the thread of our 

 ramble at the point where the Walk forked beside the 

 dogwoods and huckleberry. We followed the right 

 hand branch out to the Second Summer House. Let 

 us now follow the left hand branch out to the end of 

 the peninsula on your left. You pass red maple, 

 Osage orange (near the water) and close by the Walk 

 again, still at your left, beyond the Osage "orange, a 

 good specimen of the hoary or speckled alder (Almis 

 incana}. Continuing, you pass American elm and, 

 some distance beyond, near the end of the Walk here, 

 hemlock, and at the very end of the Walk, north- 

 easterly corner, paper or canoe birch. At the south- 

 westerly corner stands flowering dogwood. To this 



