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blue-black berries (sweet), ripens in September. The 

 Walk has an open space here, as you go on, with the 

 Bridle Path close on its left. About the middle of 

 its right hand bank stands a fine esh-leaved maple. A 

 little back of this tree and to the east, close down on 

 the water's edge is one of the handsomest weeping 

 beeches in the Park. Back of the weeping beech on 

 the borders of the little cove here, are European silver 

 linden and weeping European silver linden. 



Coming back to the Walk again and proceeding 

 westward we find on the left of the Walk, almost on 

 the point where the greensward begins to form a bank 

 at the junction of the Walk and Bridle Path, a fine 

 mass of California!! privet, which, in June, i c covered 

 with white flowers. Then comes a little cluster of 

 European flowering ashes, (Fraxinus ornus). You 

 may know them easily by their short trunks and gray, 

 brittle-looking branches. There are a number of them 

 here, and if you pass them in late May or early June 

 you will see them all fluffed over with profuse green- 

 ish-white fringe-like flowers, borne in clusters on the 

 ends of the branches. But do not mistake the furthest 

 one of these low branching trees for one of the Euro- 

 pean flowering ashes. That tree, which stands about 

 opposite the arm of the Walk which runs out to the 

 Summer House here, is an ash-leaved maple, or box 

 elder. You can know it at once by its dark greenish 

 bark and, if in foliage, by its pinnate leaves, of from 

 three to five leaflets. On the right you have passed to 

 this point bald cypress, about opposite the mass of Cal- 

 ifornian privet, Forsythia viridissima, another bald cy- 



