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dish white against the steel-blue of the Lake. Over 

 by the Artesian Well is a magnificent display of lilacs 

 of over eighty different varieties. A little north-west 

 of the lamp-post, which stands by the Drive, west 

 of the Artesian Well, a good specimen of the ailanthus 

 has taken firm stand. 



Beyond the Artesian Well, the Walk branches into 

 two forks. One, the left hand, follows on by the side 

 of the Drive, and crosses Terrace Bridge to Breeze 

 Hill. The other slopes gently down to the right and 

 searches the most delightful arcades of greenery, the 

 lovely nooks of the Peninsula.. If you love light and 

 the shine of things green, the breath of dew and the 

 song of birds, come here in June, early in the morn- 

 ing, when the gold of the sunlight is illuminating 

 all the paths with an ever changing dance of sunbeams ; 

 when the grasses are all bending with the silver of 

 the dew and sparkling diamond drops from their arch- 

 ing tips. The robins run over the new mown lawn, 

 stop a bit to stare at yon and then run on. The golden 

 bee is already abroad brushing the moist lips of fra- 

 grant flowers and the quiet air is broken by the splash 

 of leaping fish in the Lake, feeding along the dream- 

 ing coves. 



We take the right hand fork and go down to the 

 Peninsula. In its fork is Japan snowball, with easily 

 distinguishable folded or plicated leaf, generally round 

 but often longer than broad. Just as you have started 

 to follow the path over the lovely green stretches of 

 the Peninsula, you pass, on your left, a sweet viburnum 

 which vou can know at once bv its verv finelv ser- 



