green of the yews. Back of the Bocconia, up the hill, 

 is an excellent growth of American holly (Ilex opaca) 

 and just beyond the holly, down the hill a little, is an- 

 other English yew. There are goodly clumps of moun- 

 tain laurel in here and in June they are in full bloom. 

 You will find two of them opposite the fringe tree on 

 the other side of the Walk. Almost beside the second 

 clump of laurel you will find a" good specimen of 

 Andromeda axillaris. This shrub is lovely in early 

 spring when it sends out flowers, on curving stems, in 

 long rows of little white bells like lilies-of-the-valley. 

 These droop on either side of the middle flower stem. 



Up the hill, back of the Andromeda, is a tall hickory 

 with rather close bark and small fruit. Its leaves are 

 made up of five and seven leaflets, long pointed, finely 

 serrate and smooth. It is the small mockernut hickory 

 Carya microcarpa. Up the hill a little further back 

 is European larch. 



Back to the Walk again, only a few feet beyond 

 the Andromeda you pass a row of Dcutzia gracilis. 

 They make a graceful picture when in height of 

 bloom, certainly well meriting their name. 



Now we have come to that part of the Walk where 

 the water bends close to it in a deep sinus, and as 

 we go on, about opposite the black cherry, on the 

 right, we have, on the left, an interesting tree. It 

 is the sweet buckeye (Aesculus flava) and there is an- 

 other back of it, up the hill a little, standing knee- 

 deep in the waving grass. You can know this tree 

 by its compound leaves of from five to seven leaflets. 



