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bald cypress (Taxod'nim distichum), distichum be- 

 cause the leaves spread in two ranks. If you wish to 

 see a sight of great beauty, watch the bald cypresses 

 dress their branches in the early spring, covering them 

 with fine feathery leaves of tenderest green. Here 

 comes another open stretch of Walk with the water 

 of the Large Lake close to the path. In a corner of 

 the little bay the Amorpha fructicosa is met again, 

 holding up its conspicuous tell-tale fingers, full of 

 seeds, to the eye of the winter rambler. Across the 

 short stretch of open, you meet rearing up, dark 

 barked and grizzly, the strong, rugged overcup or 

 mossy cup oak. If you chance here in autumn, you 

 will have no difficulty in finding under this tree its 

 identifying acorns, great hairy-looking things all 

 frouzled over with fringe which literally on many 

 acorns almost covers the nut. Against the winter's 

 sky the tree cuts a clear, bold outline for all its twist- 

 ing branches. Its end branches are noticeably corky 

 and somewhat quadrangular. Closer to the Walk are 

 clumps of Weigela with rose-colored flowers in June ; 

 common snowball, with great white globes of bloom in 

 May ; syringa with white four-petaled fragrant flowers 

 in June. Further along, still on the right of the Walk, 

 is red osier or spreading cornel, Cornus stolonifera, 

 easily known by its striated branches and, in autumn, 

 by its lead colored or blue-black berries, silver lindens, 

 Tilia Europ&a, var. argentea and Tilia Europcca, var. 

 argentea pcndnla, Weigela, Forsythia viridissima, Cor- 

 nelian cherry (Cornus mascula) and Judas tree. Here 

 the Walk reaches out another arm to the right feel- 



