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European elder (Sambucus nigra, var. laciniata). 

 You can know it by its leaf alone. It makes you think 

 of the graceful arabesques of Moorish decorations. 

 One leaf of it would serve as an exquisite model for 

 artistic designing. Hanging here over the water it 

 seems to float on the air. Try to see it in June, when, 

 through all its lace, it sets the feathery fineness of its 

 white flowers. Beside the Walk again, further along, 

 we come to Van Houtte's spiraea again. Then we meet 

 Oriental spruce, tall, pyramidal, with beautiful dark 

 green foliage whose deep shadows seem full of sweetly 

 melancholy thoughts. Beyond the spruce is a fine 

 fringe tree and beyond the fringe tree, silver maple, 

 two more clumps of Spircea Van Houttei, then Wei- 

 gela, (a little back of the second bush of Van Houttei) 

 and then black cherry. This black cherry stands by 

 the Walk, where the water curves in close to the bank. 

 Up to this point, on the left, you have passed (from 

 the Arbor) Oriental spruce, American elder, and two 

 English yews quite close together. They stand about 

 opposite the Cornus stolonifera. Just beside the first 

 English yew here, nestling close to it is Japan yew 

 (Ta.rus adpressa) and beyond the second yew is an 

 interesting herb from China, Bocconia cordata, named 

 from Bocconi, an Italian botanist. It rises on tall 

 stems and carries very odd looking round-cordate 

 lobed leaves, thick, veiny and glaucous. In late July 

 or early August it is in bloom, and then you may see 

 its large spikes of white or rose-white flowers very 

 showy and very beautiful in their fineness. It is cer- 

 tainly very pleasingly set here, foiled by the dark 



