ALONG THE LAKESIDE- 

 THIRD EXCURSION 



" The glossy holly loved the park, 

 The yew-tree lent its shadow dark, 

 And many an old oak, worn and bare, 

 With all its shiver'd boughs, was there." 



SIR WALTER SCOTT. 



CAN a lazy person, averse to long rambles, dis- 

 cover a pleasant path of ten minutes' length, 

 along which he can find, mostly within touch, 

 fifty ornamental tree-species, native and foreign, singly 

 and in clusters, picturesquely grouped, illustrating every 

 prominent type of form, foliage, and fruit in the growth 

 of sylva, at home and abroad ? Yes, the landscape- 

 gardener of the Park has provided just such an oppor- 

 tunity along the west side of the Lake, and this is the 

 route of our present excursion. The following list is the 

 briefest possible account of what is brought into view 

 successively by beginning at the south end of the 

 " Bow-Bridge," and following the path around the 

 west side till one reaches the little bridge at the north 

 end of the Lake. The distance is covered in less than 

 ten minutes. 



Weeping Beech Weeping Willow 



Mossy-cup Oak Sophora Japonica 



Swamp Magnolia Angelica-tree 



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