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(flower stem) lengthens and branches out into dense 

 hairy feathery fluff. The leaf of this tree is smooth, 

 of clear green, entire, and obovate in shape, swing- 

 ing easily on a slender petiole. 



About due north of this smoke tree, across the 

 Drive, stand three Kentucky coffee trees, in a close 

 cluster, east of a lamp-post, and due north of the 

 Kentucky coffee trees is a large handsome ash tree 

 with dark lustrous green compound leaves. This is 

 a very interesting tree, for it is slightly pubescent 

 about the bases of the leaf stems and in the axils of 

 the leaflets. It is, therefore, a fair type of the inter- 

 mediate form of ash between the red and the white, 

 the white being smooth, and the red densely pubescent. 

 You note that on this tree the end branches are mostly 

 smooth. 



Off to the northeast of this tree is a magnificent 

 clump of Japan quince, which is a glory of crimson in 

 the spring. It is superb. Just beside this, also to the 

 northeast of it, is a lovely pink double-flowered variety 

 of the English hawthorn. To the right of the quince, 

 northwest, is a healthy specimen of the English haw- 

 thorn proper. This has white flowers in May. A 

 fine old Mahaleb cherry stands above these three 

 beauties. To the north, beyond the Mahaleb, side by 

 side, are two glorious purple beeches. It was my 

 very good fortune to see the lovely white bloom of 

 the hawthorn against the rich dark purple of these 

 two beeches, and it was a sight I shall not forget. To 

 the left of the beeches is a pretty young black haw, 

 which you can identify easily by the little crimson 



