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that breaks in spring, and how you love its purity and 

 delicacy and modesty. It is indeed lovely and lovable, 

 and its blooming while yet most things are asleep, 

 brings with it a renewed sense of the life that is eter- 

 nal and inextinguishable, the awakening of purity and 

 the fragrance that exhales from good and perfection. 

 Silently every year the Creator sends these symbols to 

 us. How do we read them ? Go, stand before the bush 

 honeysuckle in the bare days of spring and let its mes- 

 sage fill your soul with a perfume as real as its fra- 

 grance. 



Just beyond the fragrantissima stands an elm with 

 smooth and glossy leaves, whose shape and cutting 

 tell you at once that it is of the English kith. It is the 

 smooth-leaved variety of Ulmns campestris. Notice, 

 too, its rather smoothish branches. It is ulmus campe- 

 tris, var. laevis (or var. glabra). At the very tip of 

 this point of Walk stands a bristly-looking small 

 tree, whose vigorous thorns and thick, leathery leaves, 

 long wedge-shaped at base, will easily identify it to 

 you as a fair specimen of the cockspur thorn. 



Chinese privet and mountain elder will be found near 

 the Bridle Path, not far from the Bridge just passed 

 on this Walk. The privet has upright branches, oval, 

 obtuse leaves ; the elder carries its flowers in a raceme. 



Near the Aviary, south of the Arsenal, quite close 

 to the house itself, you will find a well-grown yellow 

 or sweet buckeye JEsculus ftava. It has from five to 

 seven leaflets palmately arranged. These leaflets are 

 rather elliptical in form, gradually narrowing down 

 from a broad middle to pointed ends. Their leaf stems 



