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tree, with heart-shaped leaves. At this point we will 

 now take the right fork of the Walk and follow it east- 

 ward. As we turn to do so, on our left is a fringe 

 tree, with an osage orange near the Arch, and back 

 of both another hackberry. The fringe tree you can 

 know by its oval, entire leaves, which somewhat re- 

 semble the leaves of the magnolia. If it is in bloom, 

 you will know it at once by its fringe-like flowers. 

 These are four-parted, white, and, in June, cover the 

 shrub with snow-white masses of bloom. These flow- 

 ers are succeeded by purple berries. The osage orange 

 is easily known by the spines in the axils of the leaves. 

 Back of the fringe tree, north of it, is English haw- 

 thorn, identified by its thorns and cut-lobed leaves, 

 wedge-shaped at the base. On the right of the Walk 

 are Chinese wistaria and mock orange or sweet syringa. 

 Passing through the Arch here, you meet, on the 

 left, flowering dogwood, with a cluster of young com- 

 mon locusts just beyond. On your right, near the 

 Arch, just as you come out from its shadow, is a fine 

 old sycamore maple. A little beyond, the path forks 

 again. We take the right branch, passing, on our left, 

 a hemlock, then a shadbush, the latter about in the bend 

 of the Walk. The shadbush is easily known by its 

 peculiarly-veined bark, steel-gray shot over with 

 darker, vein-like lines. Diagonally across from the 

 shadbush, in the right of the Walk, one above and the 

 other below, are Lonicera fragrantissima and sweet 

 gum. The honeysuckle is a bush and has cusp-tipped 

 leaves; the sweet gum is a tall tree with star-shaped 

 leaves. A little further on you come to an Arbor. 



