flowers that at once say "lilac" to your discriminat- 

 ing eye. It is the Syringa Josikcea or the Josika lilac 

 and gets its botanical name from the Baroness von 

 Josika who discovered its parent stock in Hungary. It 

 is certainly very handsome and there are many bushes 

 of it in the Park. Some of them bear deep purple 

 flowers, much deeper in hue than those of our com- 

 mon lilac. Do not confuse Syringa, the generic term 

 of lilac, with Syringa which is botanically known by 

 the name Philadelphia. 



Of course, you at once recognize the very hand- 

 some Camperdown elm at the turn of the Walk as it 

 bends to go over to the Boat House. You no doubt 

 have already learned the look . of its leaf, rough 

 dark green, broad across the top and ending in beau- 

 tiful points which shoot out conspicuously from its 

 heavy serrations. The umbrella-like form of this tree 

 is enough to mark it, but learn to know its leaf. No- 

 tice, too, its kinship of leaf with the Scotch elm. 



Now let us go back a little and begin at the left 

 of the Arch. High up on the bank, there is another 

 Camperdown elm and close beside it a well grown Bho- 

 tan pine. It is easy to know the Bhotan by its tassel- 

 like foliage. Close down by the Walk is box or box- 

 wood (Bii.vus sempervircns). In early spring look foi 

 its interesting little flowers in sessile bracted clusters 

 closely set in the axils of the thick, entire, opposite, 

 evergreen leaves. Beyond the box, is Polish juniper, 

 differing from common juniper in its thick bunchy 

 cluster-like leaf growth and shorter, stiffer needles. 

 That it is juniper, you easily know by examining its 



