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It gets its name from Desfontaines, a French botanist. 

 In May or June it sends out its creamy-white flower 

 clusters in both terminal and auxiliary racemes or 

 panicles. The Fontanesia has rather quadrangular 

 branches and flat-winged seeds. 



The next fork of the Walk, close by the Dairy, shows 

 in its left-hand corner a handsome Japan quince which 

 bears crimson flowers early in the spring, and directly 

 opposite to it, in the bend of the right-hand fork, is 

 a Persian lilac which blooms in May with handsome 

 lilac-colored flowers. 



If you follow the right-hand fork past the Dairy, 

 and toward the Drive, just beyond the Dairy, on your 

 left, you will find a honeysuckle which somewhat re- 

 sembles the fly honeysuckle. It stands on your left, 

 about half way between the Dairy and the large Pau- 

 lownia which you easily recognize by its little "grape- 

 bunches" of flower buds and catalpa-like leaves. The 

 Paulownia is midway between the Dairy and Drive, 

 on the left. But to come back to the honeysuckle. It 

 is the Standish's honeysuckle (Lonicera Standishii). 

 It is an early bloomer, coming out in March or April 

 with very fragrant white or blusri-tinted flowers on 

 hairy footstalks. Its delicate blossoms give the bush 

 a dainty look lovely to see, while yet the paths are 

 lined with bare shrubs and trees. The leaves of this 

 honeysuckle lack the cusp at the top of the leaves 

 which so characterizes the fragrantissima. The leaves 

 of the Standishii are leathery (coriaceous) and have 

 ciliate or hairy margins. In form the leaf is ovate- 

 lance shape and has a hard finish appearance, especially 



