The leaves of this shrub are noticeably three-lobed 

 and generally heart-shaped. It bursts into profuse 

 bloom in June, with white flowers in umbel-like cor- 

 ymbs. These soon develop into fruit pods which are 

 quite as conspicuous as its flowers. The pods turn a 

 rusty red or crimson purple. Beyond the ninebark is a 

 Reeve's spiraea, beautiful also in June when it is laden 

 with close clustered heads of pure white flowers. 

 To the right of the Reeve's spiraea, close by the water, 

 rise a couple of splendid white or silver poplars. 

 They are beauties, with their conspicuous barks of 

 a pale greenish silvery gray on the upper branches 

 which in winter throws them out sharply to the eye 

 from the massed tones of adjacent trees. Every breeze 

 showers their leaves with silver or snow. Not many 

 feet further on you meet the European or tree alder 

 (Alnus glntinosa). If you can see the little black 

 "cones" on its branches, you will know it at once. 

 But its leaf is characteristic enough to distinguish it; 

 being roundish wedge-shaped, gently cut in at the 

 top and serrated beautifully in wavy cuttings. 



Beyond the alder is Reeve's spiraea again and back 

 of this is black haw. Then comes another Reeve's 

 spiraea and back of it, a shadbush. The shadbush 

 you have learned to know by its bark, so beautifully 

 marked. Then we meet common locust again, by the 

 Walk, and beyond the locust, dogwood. An open 

 stretch of grass follows and we stop at a point not 

 far from the Terrace Bridge to look at two lovely 

 willows drooping over the stream close to the water's 

 edge. They are very beautiful and very different. 



