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tree. Close by the Walk, on the left, just beyond 

 the smoke tree are many fine bushes of the Physo- 

 carpus or ninebark, and beyond , these, near the Drive 

 crossing, large spreading bushes of the fragrant hon- 

 eysuckle. 



In the corner of the open space of Walk here, as 

 you go on, at your right, a well grown shadbush hangs 

 its small, finely serrated leaves over the waters, and 

 on the rounded turn of the Walk, still on the right, 

 you will find the cut-leaved variety of the weeping 

 European white birch. See how beautifully its leaves 

 are incised. A little further on is ash-leaved maple 

 and then weeping European silver linden and Eu- 

 ropean silver linden side by side. Not many steps 

 onward and you meet another English hawthorn, which 

 in May covers itself with the loveliest of pink .double 

 flowers. 



Again the path comes down close to the Lake, and 

 at the corner of the bank, where the sward narrows 

 handsome clumps of the sturdy Forsythia hold up 

 the shining lances of their beautiful leaves. In early 

 spring they are among the first to set their golden 

 bells a-chiming and they are rich sights if you get 

 them reflected in the stream. Right back of this open 

 space of walk, on the grass, between the Walk and the 

 Drive, are several young yellow-woods. 



As you go on, interesting studies of things botanical 

 come thick and fast, now, all along the line of march, 

 and we would feign linger over them at length, but 

 space does not permit. I can only give you the hint, 

 the filling out of which you must do yourself. On 



