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willow. You see that they have the leaf of the variety 

 vitellina (the golden willow), but their barks are very 

 different from that of vitellina, as you will see if you 

 come to them in the winter. As winter approaches 

 these trees change their barks first to brassy gold, then 

 to pink and then to crimson-pink. Next, to the left 

 of the salmon-barked willows, standing a little back 

 from the Walk is a very peculiar looking sapling, with 

 leaves curiously curled and twisted into ring-like 

 wreathings. This is the curled-leaved or ring-leaved 

 willow, and it is a variety of the weeping willow. 



If you turn to the west now and follow the path's 

 right hand border, it will lead you around the shore 

 of a little arm of the Lake nestled here. When you 

 come to a point where it (the Walk) makes its last 

 junction before meeting the path from under Terrace 

 Bridge, you will find three fine clumps of the Reeve's 

 spiraea. Back of them stands a golden barked weeping 

 willow. Side by side, on the point that juts from the 

 shore just back of the willow are two fine specimens of 

 the Lombardy poplar. 



Continuing along the path, which has turned from a 

 westerly to a northerly direction, you pass golden 

 barked weeping willow, common elder, false indigo. 

 Then comes an open stretch and laurel-leaved willow, 

 glossy and shining; false indigo again, mixed in with 

 Cornus stolonifera; and then French tamarisk. Just 

 beyond the last fork of the Walk you should notice the 

 fine cluster of European spindle trees which stand 

 grouped together in cozy gatherings on the right of 

 the Walk. They make a fine showing in the frosty 

 days of early autumn with their brilliant crimson fruits, 



