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magic of his breath changes its glossy green to bril- 

 liant crimson. Beyond the red oak clustered close 

 together by the waterside are a bunch of American 

 chestnuts. 



Now we have come to Lullwood Bridge and cross- 

 ing it we find several things to look at on the penin- 

 sula beyond. Following this around, we find a clump 

 of the dwarf Japan catalpa, easily known by its 

 angular leaves. Beyond is another dwarf clump, but 

 of a very different kind. This is the dwarf horse- 

 chestnut, Pavia macrostachya, called so from its long, 

 upright racemes of white flowers, which are so con- 

 spicuous in early July. Note its beautiful, smooth, 

 palmate leaves. On the point, are fringe trees in a 

 cluster and European flowering ashes, and on the next 

 point of the peninsula, two golden or yellow willows 

 side by side and about opposite them, dropping the 

 beautiful green cascade of its leaves into the stream, a 

 graceful weeping willow. The shore makes a bay 

 in here and at its narrowest point with the Walk, 

 about midway between water and Walk, almost in 

 line with each other are ninebark, sweet pepper bush, 

 and European or tree alder. A fine, old silver maple 

 whispering to itself, stands sentinel at the end of the 

 inlet here, and another one, close by the Walk, over- 

 hangs the groups of syringa, which we met as we 

 started on this ramble. 



