stands a well grown spice bush (Benzoin benzoin) 

 known at once by its spreading dusky, blackish 

 branches speckled with whitish patches. The spice 

 bush blooms early, a little later than the Cornelian 

 cherry and sets its flowers in little close clusters of 

 yellow along its bare branches. Next to the spice bush 

 stands another bald cypress. North-west from the 

 bald cypress, close to the water's edge, is a sturdy 

 English elm of heavy trunk and oak-like growth. 

 Next beyond the English elm, overhanging the water 

 is a hackberry. If you had nothing else to know it 

 by except its bark that would be enough. Look at 

 the base of its trunk. Those knots and ridges are 

 enough to identify any hackberry. They are always 

 present. At the north-western corner of the Arbor 

 you will find European larch, not doing very well here 

 for some reason, and beyond the larch, another bald 

 cypress. These are on the right of the Walk. 



Not very far from them, as you go on, there is a 

 clump of the Van Houtte's spiraea and a little to one 

 side of it, a bush of the red osier (Cornus stolonifer a } . 

 Notice the reddish stems of this bush. In winter they 

 are bright crimson. Its leaf shows its kinship with 

 the dogwoods. In the early summer it flowers with 

 flat white corymbs and these develop into lead colored 

 berries. You cannot mistake this bush if you examine 

 its twigs. These towards their ends are very reddish 

 and streaked with crinkly lines of light gray. Almost 

 opposite the red osier, leaning out over the water from 

 its foothold on the very edge of the bank is a fairy 

 shrub, all lace and fineness. This is the cut-leaved 



