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of lilacs. One of these bushes bears white flowers, 

 the others all have purple. Then we come to several 

 Osage oranges and hop-hornbeams. Lock out for the 

 fruit of the hop-hornbeams and see how different it 

 is from that of the hornbeam. Then comes a Viburnum 

 I'Ugosuin, with rough, wrinkled leaves, and broad heads 

 of white flowers in spring. Its leaves are almost round. 

 You can find it easily for it is not far from a goodly sil- 

 ver maple which stands up quite conspicuously near 

 here. An English hawthorn meets you beyond the 

 silver maple and then a Norway spruce. Quite a 

 little stretch further on you come to another Euro- 

 pean or tree alder and down by the waterside, fur- 

 ther along, a well grown bay or laurel-leaved willow. 

 How it flashes and plays with the sunshine. Near 

 the waterside a little beyond is a graceful striped 

 maple, grown to good size. Note the fine markings 

 of its bark and if you wish to see a graceful sight, 

 come to this tree in May, when its flowers hang in 

 delicate greenish racemes from under its tender and 

 beautifully wrought leaves. You cannot mistake the 

 tree. Its striped bark is distinctive as are also its 

 strongly three-lobed leaves, with the lobes ending in 

 long, fine points. Several beautiful hemlocks float 

 their fine sprays to the breezes here, playing with 

 the lights and shadows of the sunshine. By the stream- 

 side you will find a European hazel, very beautiful 

 when the alders are clouding the bare trees with soft 

 crimsons. The bloom of this hazel is worth seeing. 

 It hangs all over it a golden vail, made by the flower- 



