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in July or August to reddish berries densely covered 

 with silvery scales. This Elceagmis miiltiflora closely 

 resembles its sister, Elceagnus umbellata, which also 

 carries its blossoms in axillary umbels. But the es- 

 pecial difference between the two is that the former 

 ripens its fruit much earlier than the latter. The 

 latter's fruit is ripe in October. You will find hand- 

 some specimens of the umbellata indicated and de- 

 scribed in chapter number five of this book. 



Opposite the Elceagnus multiflora, on the left of the 

 Walk, is hop- tree, and beyond the hop tree, with leop- 

 ard spots, a good Oriental plane tree. The Oriental 

 plane tree differs from our native buttonwood in two 

 easily recognizable features in leaf and in bark. The 

 bark of the American is of finer scale-like texture, 

 that of the Oriental peels much more cleanly and in 

 larger shreddings, leaving the bare wood exposed for 

 considerable distances. The color, too, of this bare 

 wood is of a peculiar pale greenish yellow like a 

 washed-out olive tint, very different from the whiter 

 wood of the American species. The other difference 

 is in the leaf. The Oriental is deeply in-cut on either 

 side of the end lobe. The American is not in-cut 

 about the upper lobe at all. The Oriental generally 

 flowers and fruits with a chain of balls, the Amer- 

 ican's fruit swings solitarily on a single stem. 



On your left still, just beyond the plane tree, is a 

 stocky Norway maple, and further on, about midway 

 between the fork of the Walk just passed and the 

 one below us, stands a European linden. Diagonally 

 across the Walk from it is Ailanthus, and diagonally 



