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ing staminate catkins. Beside the hazel is yellow or 

 golden willow. 



A good specimen of the English elm stands 

 near the Walk further on and near the center of the 

 bankshore of a cove, a red-mulberry rustles its odd- 

 shaped leaves. 



Now we have come to a point where the Walk 

 splits into two forks, the left crossing Nethermead, 

 the right keeping on toward the Boat House. On 

 the Walk we have just been over, we passed, on 

 the left, coming from Terrace Bridge, purple willow, 

 Weir's cut-leaved silver maple (easily known by its 

 very finely cut-leaves), a clump of Austrian pines up 

 on the hillside near Nethermead Circuit Drive: then 

 a long sweep and a bush of common elder about op- 

 posite the tree alder; European hornbeam, opposite 

 laurel-leaved willow ; box ; hemlocks ; European horn- 

 beam again, just before you come to the English 

 elm. About opposite the little cove where the red 

 mulberry keeps guard, you find on the left of the 

 Walk, Mugho pine with its dwarf form clutching the 

 bank; Austrian pine again and then two more Mugho 

 pines. Just beyond the Mugho pines are two Ceph- 

 alonian silver firs which do not seem to be doing 

 nearly so well as their sturdy clansman back of the 

 Arbor and up the slope of Breeze Hill across the 

 stream. That Cephalonian silver fir is a beautiful 

 specimen and is one of the handsomest of its kind 

 in the Park. You can know the Cephalonian by 

 its stiff, sharp, pointed needles, which are dark-green 

 above, white beneath, and have their petioles dilated 



