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per bush, known easily in winter by the dried fruit 

 racemes which cling to its branches in spike-like rows 

 of bottle-shaped capsules. Then you come to arrow- 

 wood with its beautiful saw-cut leaves, pepper bush 

 again, and then to three bushes of Forsythia viridis- 

 sima, with lance-like leaves. 



Just east of the Arbor is American elm, and a little 

 distance beyond it, close by the Walk, stands another 

 beautiful red maple. In the point, on the right, where 

 this Walk meets the Walk from Sixth Avenue Gate, 

 which . we followed in the previous ramble, you will 

 find a fine Scotch elm which you can recognize easily 

 by its leaf alone. This is broad at the top, with a 

 longish point, and often with some lesser points shoot- 

 ing out very noticeably from its end. The flowers of 

 the Scotch elm are of a purplish green, in close dense 

 clover-like clusters, and these change into large winged 

 seeds. The seeds, and often the wings, are beautifully 

 flushed with purple. The wing of the fruit is round, 

 oval, and slightly notched at the end. 



Let us go on a little here and follow the left swing 

 of the Walk northward to the Drive, and then retrace 

 our steps to the cross-walk which we met soon aftef 

 we came in at the Seventh Avenue Gate. 



About midway between the junction here and the 

 Drive to the north, with its foot well gripped to the 

 rocks on your right, stands a sturdy young American 

 holly (Ilex opaca). You know it is holly immediately, 

 by its leaves, set so bravely with spines, and you know 

 it is the American species by its flattish leaf of a dead 

 dully finished green. The leaf of the European holly 



