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the easterly path along the Meadow. Now we will 

 follow the path skirting the westerly side of the 

 Meadow and to do it, we take at the fork here the 

 left hand branch. 



You no doubt are already familiar with many of 

 the trees we pass and we will hurry on a little, beneath 

 the overhanging branches of chestnut, hickory, sweet 

 gum and soft maples, to the next fork of the Walk. 

 A very handsome young pin oak stands in the very 

 point of the south-eastern angle made by the junction 

 of the paths. Hunt for its beautiful, small acorn, the 

 tiniest, daintiest nut. It is scarcely half an inch long 

 and its cup is extremely shallow saucer-shaped and 

 is almost sessile. 



Continue along the cross-walk here to the Drive, 

 and follow the Drive southward until you come to 

 an arm of it leading off at your right. This arm has 

 its point of junction about opposite a lamp-post, on 

 the left. In the clump of things clustered in the 

 south-west angle of this fork of the Drive, you will 

 find one very peculiar and very interesting tree. It 

 is the heart-leaved alder and has grown to the dignity 

 of a good sized tree. You will have no trouble in 

 finding it, for the telltale alder "cones" hang thickly all 

 through it, black, and very easily seen. But look 

 at its leaves. See how heart-shaped they are. Note 

 their dark shining green. This tree comes from 

 Southern Europe and after it gets a hold on 

 the soil, grows well. It bears its flowers, greenish- 

 brown in March or April before the leaves come out. 

 It stands here in a triangle made up of itself, a chest- 



