smell. Indeed, its smell is something to keep far 

 away from. 



In between the ginkgo trees and to the left of 

 them, you will find several bushes of the beautiful 

 Japan Stachyums. This bush takes its name from 

 the Greek stachys, a spike and our a, a tail, referring 

 to the form of its catkins. In the late days of March 

 or early April, you may chance to be passing here 

 and if you do, you must not overlook these bushes, 

 for then they are hung full of beautiful bell-like flow- 

 ers, drooping with great grace, in long axillary racemes 

 or spikes. Days before the flowers break open, you will 

 perhaps have noticed the long, conspicuous flower buds 

 hanging thickly from the axils of its leaves. 



Passing along, by the border of the Walk, on the 

 left, very near to a silver maple and a sycamore ma- 

 ple, stands a well grown tree with plump trunk, rather 

 light grayish-brown bark, and leaves so beautifully 

 cut you love to stop and linger under their soft, light 

 green, to admire their fineness. These leaves are 

 round and deeply cut into long, slender pointed lobes. 

 You probably recognize by them the Acer circinatum 

 or round-leaved maple. 



A little further on, with short trunk, and harsh, 

 knobby, knotty, heavily ridged branches, you come 

 upon another cork-bark elm, and about opposite to 

 it, by the water's edge are large clumps of the false 

 indigo. Along the Walk a short stretch, and you 

 find a handsome Japan maple, on the left, and just 

 across the Walk from it, Japan pagoda tree or Sophora 

 Japonica, Then come more ginkgo trees and at a 



