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point about opposite the end of the green "island'' 

 by the Drive, you pass, on your left, quite a cluster 

 of sophoras. These trees' leaves may make you 

 think of the locust. They belong to the same (Legunt- 

 inoscz or pulse) family, flowering in great panicles of 

 cream white in late July or early August and the 

 flowers develop into long chain-like pods of glossy 

 dark green. 



Down by the water's edge, about opposite the group 

 of sophoras just spoken of, you will find Camper- 

 down elm, a fine European purple beech, with leaves 

 of a deep dark crimson-purple, and further on, a small 

 graceful tree of umbrella-like form, with a fine rain 

 of slender branches decked with small, narrow, light 

 gray green leaves. This tree is the New American 

 Willow, a weeping variety of the purple willow, 

 grafted on the stock of the goat willow. Its effect is 

 full of exquisite grace. Following the bend of the 

 shore, you meet, a little beyond, a goodly cluster of 

 Austrian pines, all doing well and all showing off 

 very handsomely the thick, heavy dark green foliage 

 which is their glory. 



If you come back to the Walk now, on your left, 

 and a few feet beyond the point opposite the cluster 

 of Austrian pines just spoken of you pass a well set 

 group of Kcclreuteria, and at the very point where 

 the greensward narrows down to meet the Drive at 

 crossing, stands a fine young Kentucky coffee tree 

 which you readily recognize by its scaly bark and 

 leaves twice pinnately compound. Across the Drive 

 here, at the extreme point made by the fork of its two 



