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outline, quite different from the flat top of the alter- 

 nate leaved dogwood. Indeed, the flower clusters 

 of the paniculata are quite cone-shaped. You will know 

 them at once by this mark, when you see them in 

 flower. The flowers develop into white rounded ber- 

 ries about the size of peas on stalks of pale scarlet. 

 These are ripe in late August or early September. 



About opposite the north-easterly corner of the Mu- 

 sic Stand is a scarlet oak and beside it, sweet pepper 

 bush. Tall and fair and straight, a mockernut hickory 

 stretches up its lofty head nearby and Ramanas rose 

 and Missouri currant flourish in cozy nooks close 

 down by the corner of the low iron ornamental fence 

 which guards the bankside here. 



A rustic bridge spans the darkly shadowed water 

 not many feet away, and we will follow the path that 

 leads over it up to the Farm House on the hill and 

 then through the lovely shades of Ambergill out to 

 Long Meadow. Then we will come back to this rustic 

 bridge again and follow the other forking of the 

 Walk in this beautiful section of the Park. 



Tall, stately, majestic, with a silent dignity all their 

 own like two Horatii guarding, the little bridge, stand 

 two oak trees, both on the right, one at the south end, 

 the other at the north. How like, yet how unlike. The 

 southern is a white oak. Notice its light gray bark. 

 The northern is a black oak. Notice its dark black- 

 ish bark whdse thick heavy plates are quite different 

 from the thin granite gray scales of the white's. 



Just as the Walk crosses the Bridle Path, in the 

 corner at the left, is red maple, and crossing the Bridle 



