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spring is covered along its corky-ridged branches, 

 with closely bunched clusters of purplish flowers. Very 

 near the end of the right hand branch of the Walk, 

 tall and conspicuously set on the edge of the peninsula's 

 shore, a beautiful cucumber tree lifts up its rather py- 

 ramidal form. I have often admired the tree, whether in 

 ^autumn when it turns a beautiful light fawn color or 

 in the dead of winter when it flings out the bravery 

 of its light-gray branches, trimmed with the warm 

 furry buds that proclaim the magnolia family, or in 

 late May or early June when it sets its yellowish green 

 flowers of six petals through the shades of its pointed 

 leaves. If you get its autumn hues across the sleep- 

 ing waters here, you will not soon forget the sight. 



In the angle of the fork of the Walk, stands a 

 willow-leaved variety of the European flowering ash, 

 with long willow-like compound leaves and squat 

 trunk of brittle gray. Just across the Walk from it, 

 on the left of the path are some noble European sil- 

 ver lindens, easily known by their smooth satin-gray 

 bark, and cordate leaves, dark green above and sil- 

 very white beneath. 



Very close to the water near the spot where the 

 cove comes up to spread its silver near the Walk, 

 stands a tall, straight-limbed tree with compound leaves 

 and bark that says "ash" very strongly. In it, I sup- 

 pose you have recognized a fine type of the Fraxinus 

 excelsior or European ash, for such it is. See how 

 closely the leaflets set to the leaf stem, and if you have 

 nothing better to do when you are rambling in the 

 Park in early spring, watch for the bloom of this 



