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leaves are lustrous and silky of texture, especially on 

 the upper sides. You can further distinguish the 

 buckthorn by the little fine thorns (almost a prickle) 

 at the ends of the branchlets. The buckthorn's leaves 

 are generally arranged alternately on the branch, but 

 often many of them are opposite. The flowers of this 

 shrub are small, greenish, four-parted, scarcely notice- 

 able, in clusters in the axils of the leaves and they are 

 succeeded by small green (later, black) berries, about 

 a third of an inch in diameter, which contain from two 

 to four seeds. The berries are ripe about September. 

 Beyond the buckthorn you come to honey locust again, 

 and, if you follow this left branch of the fork to where 

 it meets the Walk by the Drive, you will find, all 

 frouzled over the rocks, on the right, near the junction, 

 tangled in delightful abandon, great masses of the 

 bristly locust, which you will have no difficulty in know- 

 ing by its very bristly branches. The bushes bear 

 lovely pink flowers in June, and the fruit which suc- 

 ceeds them lives up to the name bristly. 



Let us now come back to the honey locust, which, as 

 stated above, stands exactly in the northern angle of 

 the fork we have just been considering, and let us fol- 

 low its right hand branch as it curves gently around 

 to the eastward to the Stone Bridge over the Pond. A 

 lamp-post stands at its next junction, and just beyond 

 it, as you go east, on your left, is a sycamore maple, 

 and opposite to it, on the right, is a fine old American 

 elm. Continuing along a little stretch here, you pass 

 on your left, in a beautiful open cluster, a graceful 

 group of three purple beeches. These are of the Euro- 



