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stands a very interesting tree, with ailanthus-like leaves. 

 It is the Chinese cork tree (Phellodendron Amurense), 

 and if you should pass it in autumn, you should stop 

 to admire its bright red leaves and its black pea-shaped 

 berries in grape-like clusters, which remain on the 

 tree late in winter. The leaves of this tree are com- 

 pound, opposite, from one to three feet long and look 

 very much like ailanthus leaves. The leaflets, long, 

 taper-pointed, are arranged opposite each other in two 

 to six pairs, with an odd one at the end. In June it 

 flowers in not very conspicuous greenish open clusters 

 at the ends of the branches. The drupe-like fruit con- 

 tains five small seeds. Back of this tree, up the bank 

 a little, to the northwest, stands a paper mulberry with 

 a bark which seems to be faintly banded at intervals 

 along its trunk with tinges of gray, a few shades 

 darker than the pinkish gray of the rest of the trunk. 

 Its leaves are very rough on the upper sides, but soft 

 and downy beneath. They have several shapes, ovate 

 or heart-shaped, lobed variously like mulberry leaves, 

 mitten form, with the thumb on either side, or perhaps 

 both thumbs on the same mitten. The tree flowers 

 very inconspicuously, with greenish catkins in the 

 spring, but its fruit it quite conspicuous globular 

 heads, dark scarlet, insipidly sweet. These are ripe in 

 August. The paper mulberry is of foreign origin, 

 cultivated from Japan and China. Although it be- 

 longs to the same family group or order (nettle fam- 

 ily) as the Morus (mulberry), it does not belong to 

 that genus. It gets its name from the French botanist 

 P. N. V. Broussonet. A little further on, still on your 



