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Endale Arch. You will know it by its small narrow 

 oblanceolate, dark, leathery, shining leaves. It is 

 a variety of the cockspur thorn, and has a kinsman 

 down in the Pool of Vale Cashmere. 



At Endale Arch we turn sharply to our left to take 

 the crosswalk over to the Arch opposite, named long 

 ago by the Park authorities, Meadow Port Arch. 

 It is often familiarly called F Arch, because of its 

 resemblance to that letter. As we turn westward 

 then and follow this arm of the path, you will find an 

 extremely interesting ginkgo tree near Endale Arch on 

 the right of the Walk. It is an especially interesting 

 gingko because it usually fruits abundantly. This is 

 the tree of which we spoke in Chapter IX., and if you 

 wish to see the fruit of the ginkgo come to it early 

 in the fall. If you have a sensitive nose you had 

 better look at the fruit from the Walk. 



Follow the path until you come about opposite 

 the lamp-post up on the Drive at your right. Not 

 quite in line with it, but near enough for you to locate 

 it stands a handsome sugar maple a little to the right 

 of the Walk. It is an excellent type of its variety, 

 and its low hung branches make it a good tree on 

 which to see its flowers at close range. This tree 

 flowers very abundantly and in April or May you 

 may find them hanging in long umbel-like clusters, 

 just about the time the tree is 'clothing itself with 

 leaves. The wings of its fruit do not quite form a 

 right angle. This, by the way, is one of the best 

 means of identifying a maple, by noting the angle of 



