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across from the Ailanthus, on the left of the Walk 

 again, is American basswood. Compare its hard, rug- 

 ged distinctive bark with that of its European brother. 

 You can get to know the American basswood by its 

 bark alone, it is so distinctive. Beyond the basswood 

 you meet two catalpas, and across the Walk from 

 the first of them is a lusty young cockspur thorn, 

 splendidly armed with a whole arsenal of thorns, and 

 glossy with the sheen of healthy lifeful leaves. 



Continuing along the Walk, on your left, beyond 

 the second catalpa, a fine old Norway maple spreads 

 out the magnificent breadths of its wide-reaching 

 boughs. It is a superb tree, impressive in every way, 

 and one which you cannot help but admire. Just 

 beyond it the Walk forks, the left branch running 

 east under an Arch to the Ball Ground; the right, 

 continuing on south to the Eighth Avenue Gate. Let 

 us follow the left branch for a few moments, and then 

 come back to this fork of the Walk, and proceed south 

 to Eighth Avenue Gate. 



Just as you go through the Arch, on your right is 

 hop tree, easily known by its compound leaves of 

 three leaflets. This is sometimes called wafer ash, 

 from its wafer-like fruit. Beside the hop tree, west 

 of it, is Siberian pea tree again. On the other side 

 of the Arch, as you come out, on your right is silver 

 maple, and just beyond, on the opposite side of the 

 Walk, a handsome Paulownia rises on graceful bole. 

 The Walk ascends a little here, then bends around in 

 an easy curve to cross a bridge over the Bridle Path 

 beyond, and comes out upon the Ball Ground. As 



