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buttonwood-like leaves. Another Koclreuteria has 

 taken up position to the side of the sycamore maple. 

 The American elm, the sycamore maple, and the 

 Koclreuteria are almost in a line with each other, 

 the line cutting the Walk at an angle of about forty- 

 five degrees. 



As you follow the Walk out from the Park, in 

 the corner at your right, are clustered many beau- 

 tiful things. Indeed, too many to mark them on 

 any diagram, but perhaps you may pick some of 

 them out by a brief text description and by noting 

 their locality which can only be indicated. The 

 small evergreen in the corner, nearest the Exit, with 

 the pretty curved fan-shaped sprays of close, blunt 

 leaves is Retinospora obtnsa, var. nana; the shrub 

 just this side of it, by the path, is Lawson's erect 

 cypress and you can tell it by its leafsprays which 

 seem to grow in vertical planes like series of parti- 

 tions. There is another evergreen of the same kind 

 just beyond it, over toward the stone wall that flanks 

 the Park on the north. 



With the identification of these evergreens, this lit- 

 tle book of Park rambles draws to a close. It is 

 intended as a beginner's book, and if it has awak- 

 ened in the hands of its users a desire to know more 

 about the beautiful things of our Park, gathered 

 there with so much labor, with so much judgment, 

 and at such expense, it will have more than suc- 

 ceeded in its purpose. Go out to our exquisite Park. 

 Study its flowers, its shrubs, its trees, with a pur- 



