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and next to it a well grown rhododendron of the variety 

 Evcrestianum. About opposite the yew is another 

 fringe-tree-leaved lilac (Syringa Josikcra^ and 

 about opposite the Everestianum, red maple and close 

 by the water, a clump of the sweet pepper bush 

 (Clethra alnifolia). The Clethra you know by its leaf 

 alone, serrate along its upper part and entire along 

 its lower part. As you remember it bears long white 

 fingers of bloom in July. Beyond the Clethra nearer 

 to the Walk are two well grown English field maples 

 (Acer campestre), known at once by the square-cut 

 lobes of their leaves. 



On the left of the Walk again, opposite the two 

 English maples you find Mahonia Japonica again and 

 then four well-grown boxwood trees with their close- 

 set lifeful-looking leaves. See them in winter with 

 the crystalline sunshine of the morning silvering them 

 over with a dazzling brilliance and you will not be 

 sorry you came. Many a winter's ramble have I had 

 through here with the box all glorified in the down- 

 pour of the sun's splendor, with the snow breaking 

 away from the boughs of the neighboring evergreens 

 in gentle little puffs of white, with that wondrous 

 mysterious living silence of winter filling the air, 

 broken only save by the muttered rumbling of the ice 

 or the whispering of wind-driven snow. 



Beside the last of the box clumps here, we meet a 

 very interesting shrub. Notice its leaves, see how 

 closely squeezed they are. This is the so-called Japan 

 yew, but as Gray says, probably but a variety of the 

 English yew. Its botanical name is T.a.rus adpressa, 



