If you go back now to the Walk on the Meadow 

 again and go through Meadow Port Arch you will 

 come out upon a little island of shrubbery set down 

 very cozily just in front of the Arch. This island 

 has somewhat the form of a spherical triangle with 

 the longer side (the westerly) indented by a curving 

 bay. We begin with the branch that slips off at our 

 left as we come from the Arch, and follow around 

 this island of shrubbery. In the easterly angle of 

 the island, just as you come from the Arch, is ever- 

 green thorn (Cratcegus pyracantha) with dark shin- 

 ing foliage. This shrub bears light pink flowers and 

 orange-scarlet berries in the winter. A Swiss stone 

 pine fills the south-westerly angle of the island and 

 just this side of it, that is east of it, is a good bush 

 of the sessile-leaved Weigela. Diagonally across from 

 the Swiss stone pine, on the opposite border of the 

 path, parallel with the boundary line of the Park, is 

 an excellent clump of the dwarf long-racemed buck^ 

 eye. This shrub is very handsome in July, when it 

 throws up tall, tapering racemes of white bloom, 

 which stand up over its horizontally spreading leaves in 

 a very conspicuous manner. The leaves are themselves 

 very handsome, of thin, fine texture, palmately com- 

 pound. They make a fine showing for the shrub, even 

 when it is not in bloom. You will find this bush direct- 

 ly i . front of you as you come from the left branch path 

 beside the island of shrubbery. Following the cir- 

 cumference of this island, northward, you meet in its 

 northerly angle a well grown ginkgo tree with straight 



