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barked variety of the Babylonian or weeping willow. 

 In winter its twigs turn a rich, strong yellow, and 

 its falling rain of trailing branches makes it like a 

 golden vail. 



Across the Drive, a little diagonally opposite the 

 culvert stands a lamp-post, a little to the west of 

 which are more clumps of Californian privet, and to 

 the east of it, set off at about equal distances from 

 each other, you will find handsome young growths 

 of the Magnolia Soulangeana. One of the trees in 

 the clump here, the second, by the Drive, beyond the 

 lamp-post, is an umbrella tree which you recognize 

 by its large leaves hanging in true umbrella-like form 

 at the ends of its branches. 



Beyond the umbrella-tree, on the right of the Walk, 

 you pass a lusty young weeping bald cypress. Ex- 

 amine its rather chain-like growth of leaves and see 

 how different they are from the flat leaf sprays of 

 the bald cypress itself. The characteristic look of 

 the weeping bald cypress is plume-like. Its branches 

 appearing to arch gently outwards. Both trees have 

 their own expressions and each h equally fine in its 

 way. In some of the botanies, you will find the weep- 

 ing bald cypress referred to as Glyptostrobus Sinen- 

 sis, var. pendulus (weeping Chinese cypress). You 

 can always tell it by its close, rather chain-like growth 

 of leaves. 



As you follow the lake side, not far from the Arte- 

 sian Well, you will find a couple of young weeping 

 European white birches drooping slender vails of beau- 

 tifully cut leaves. The bark of these trees is red- 



