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you will find a very beautifully leaved hawthorn stand- 

 ing modestly by the bend of the path as it makes its 

 last turn, which is to the right. This is a hybrid of the 

 Crataegns tcnufolia. Beyond it is Californian privet, 

 and, at the very end of the Walk, a beautiful hawthorn 

 with dark oval glossy green shining leaves and large 

 thorns. This is the oval leaved variety of the cock- 

 spur thorn and in its way it is a little beauty. 



Let us turn around now and go back, but instead of 

 quite retracing our steps, follow the right hand border 

 of the path until it meets the Walk which comes from 

 under Terrace Bridge. About opposite the Japan 

 pagoda trees, which we passed on the way down, you 

 will see a good bush Dentzia. Beyond the Dcutzia is 

 Koclreuteria. Right out across from these, if you care 

 to push through the grass to the water's edge, you will 

 find two specimens of the umbel-flowered oleas- 

 ter (Elccagnus uinbcllata). You cannot miss them. 

 Their leaves are elliptic or oblong ovate, crisped about 

 the margins and silvery white on the undersides, often 

 marked with a few brown scales. Having taken a de- 

 tour to see these, we go on, following the right hand 

 border of the Walk. 



Near the spot where the Walk conies down close to 

 the water, there are some interesting things to pause 

 over for a few moments at least. If you stop at the 

 middle of the open stretch of path, and face the water, 

 due north, you will have upon your right two beautiful 

 English hawthorns, one of them bearing light reddish 

 or pink flowers in May. On your left, very close to the 

 water are some salmon barked varieties of the white 



