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very large, smaller than small peas, and are thickly 

 crusted over with greenish-white wax. 



Just beyond the bushes of wax myrtle you will 

 find some elegant clumps of the arrow wood or Vibur- 

 num dentatum which you at once recognize by their 

 saw-cut leaves. Another Californian privet stands a few 

 feet from the arrowwood, closer to the Walk, looking 

 very elegant with its dark green, lance-elliptic leaves 

 and stiffish outshooting branches. This privet turns 

 in the autumn, a rich indigo-bronze. The Californian 

 privet is quite different from the* so-called common 

 privet, (Ligitstrum vulgare). The latter has a much 

 smaller leaf, not so elliptic in shape, and of a bluish 

 or bottle green color. You will find specimens of 

 both kinds side by side, further on, very near the 

 fork of the Walk, beyond the Artesian Well. But 

 that is getting ahead of our story. As you stand 

 beside the Californian privet just spoken of, look 

 across, at your left, to the noble fountain-fall of 

 leafspray dropped and suddenly held by some enchant- 

 ment in mid-air which that magnificent weeping Eu- 

 ropean beech holds for you over on the slopes of 

 Lookout Hill. Is it not a beauty! Watch it when 

 the breeze stirs it into rippling light. Silver flows 

 down its glossy leaves in spangling flashes and if you 

 come near to it, your ear will be refreshed with the 

 cool whispering of its leafy music. 



The Walk bends gracefully here to the right and 

 sweeps around the base of Lookout Hill toward the 

 Peninsula. Not far from the spot marked "culvert" 

 on the sectional diagram, yon will find a golden 



