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The path runs on, following the lake border, lead- 

 ing through leafy bowers, with ever changing vistas 

 of water and islands that have come to anchor here, 

 making witching nooks, and quiet, dreaming bays, over 

 which the enamoured trees lean and caress with droop- 

 ing branches. As you pass along, if it be in June, 

 you will find the lovely Laburnum, letting down chains 

 of golden bloom, which show very conspicuously 

 amid its light green leaves. But if it is not in flower, 

 you can know it by its alternate palmate leaves of 

 three leaflets. Its leaf is very beautiful, soft and 

 tender, and of a lovely shade of green. Its flowers 

 develop into pods about two inches long which are 

 ripe in autumn. You will find this laburnum easi- 

 ly, on the right of the Walk, a little further than half 

 way to where the Walk next meets the water. On 

 the left of the Walk, about opposite it, is a tall tree 

 alder, which you know at once by its black alder 

 "cones," all over its branches and its roundish ovate, 

 leaf cut in at the top. 



Where the Walk next comes close to the water's 

 edge stand Kaelreuteria, on the right, and false in- 

 digo on the left, as you face the water. Back of 

 the false indigo is a fine fringe tree with wide-reach- 

 ing branches and a splendid outburst of white fringe- 

 like bloom in June. Turning again and passing on, at 

 the next meeting of Walk and water, you will find 

 quite a large clump of the Hercules's Club or Devil's 

 Walking Stick. Just beyond it is another pear or 

 black hawthorn and across the Walk from it, on your 

 left as you face toward Lookout Hill, stands smoke 



