stem-winged leaves of the dwarf mountain sumac de- 

 tain your eye. How lovely they are in autumn when 

 the frost sets them glowing in rich cool crimsons. The 

 staghorn and the smooth sumacs turn a bright brilliant 

 scarlet crimson, but the copallina, smoulders with a less 

 intense flame and holds its fire longer. Down the hill- 

 side a little, at your right you will find not far from the 

 winding Walk that creeps out from under the Bridge 

 and loiters easily along the lake border of Breeze Hill, 

 a pretty young mountain maple, with leaves of three 

 (sometimes five, but rarely) coarsely serrate lobes and 

 base slightly cordate. The lobes are taper pointed. 

 If you are passing this shrub in June, look for its deli- 

 cate spikes or panicles of greenish yellow flowers. 

 Below the mountain maple, close by the Walk, you 

 will find tiger's tail spruce (Pice a polita) with leaves 

 stiff enough to identify it easily. Coming back to 

 the Walk beside the Drive, in the fork of 

 the Walk just beyond the lamp-post, stands a bush 

 of the white flowered variety of the Tartarian honey- 

 suckle and if you follow on to the Old Fashioned 

 Flower Garden which crowns the summit of Breeze 

 Hill you pass, about half way there, a little off from 

 the Walk, at your right, a lusty young specimen of the 

 Japan silver fir. It is about four or five feet high, 

 with strong stiff branches and leaves of marked indi- 

 viduality. You cannot mistake them. They are about 

 one inch long and grow very closely two-ranked with 

 a noticeable twist at the base where they join the 

 branch. Moreover they are distinctly notched at the 

 ends, are smooth dark green on the upper sides and 

 rather silvery beneath. 



