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As you pass along the Walk, you notice on the right 

 that the shrubberies form themselves here into some 

 four or five distinct groups, and if you study each group 

 by itself you will have little difficulty in identifying 

 the things indicated on the diagram for this section. 



Beginning with the first group you meet, you will 

 find flanking its southerly border brave little bushes, 

 which you must not fail to see in autumn. These are 

 Indian currant bushes and in the frosty days hang all 

 through them their bright red berries. The berries 

 have given the bush the name of coral berry. Back 

 of the Indian currant border are several young ailan- 

 thus trees, whose leaves you can compare with those 

 of the sumac bushes all about here. About the feet 

 of the ailanthus trees and back of the Indian currant, 

 another clan of soldiery fills up this phalanx of shrub- 

 bery. This you will see, by examining its leaves, is 

 the mountain-ash-leaved spiraea, and if you chance to 

 pass near it in midsummer you will see it all puffed 

 over with the white fluff of its bloom. Around on 

 the south-eastern side of this clump of shrubbery, near 

 the Bridle Path, and about opposite a lamp-post, there 

 is a fine gathering of ninebark, which you know at 

 once by its bark-tattered stems and by its roundish, 

 heart-shaped three lobed leaves. If you go up the 

 Bridle Path a little, you pass at your right some 

 excellent specimens of the common privet, and you can 

 see how different is its leaf from that of the Californian 

 privet. Note the bluish-green tinge of the common 

 privet. About opposite the two clumps of common 

 privet you have at the left, banked in the clump of 



