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slender; Austrian, leaves in twos, three to five inches 

 long; Scotch, leaves in twos, short, from an inch to 

 two inches long, partly twisted, and of a beautiful 

 bluish green color. If you will bear in mind these 

 few salient features you can easily identify the pines 

 in the Park. 



But to come back to our Walk, directly west of 

 the second Austrian pine are two good specimens of 

 our native white pine. Note the soft, fine quality of 

 their leaf masses. They look almost downy. A little 

 further along we come to another cockspur thorn with 

 a copper beech west of it. Diagonally across the Walk 

 from the cockspur thorn is English elm, then, just 

 beyond, on your left, are two Scotch elms, with a 

 sycamore maple at the extreme left hand point of the 

 greensward as you come out at the Eighth Avenue 

 Gate. About opposite the English elm on the right 

 of the Walk, is another Austrian pine. See how bunchy 

 its leaf masses are. No other pine in the Park has this 

 prominent bunching of its leaves, which strikes the 

 eye so noticeably as to be at once an easily recognizable 

 feature of the tree. At the extreme right hand corner 

 of the Eighth Avenue Gate you find a fine young 

 specimen of the common horsechestnut, with large, 

 gummy, knob-like buds in winter. If you want win- 

 ter amusement well worth your while, study the winter 

 buds. Get to know the trees in winter, by bark, 

 branch and bud. Each has its peculiar bark. Endless 

 joy and amusement await you in the study of these 

 details, and you will grow to know the shrubs and trees 

 as well in winter as in summer. 



