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pine flings out its free-hearted boughs in the broad 

 and open way so characteristic of it. A clump of 

 witch hazel with large oval, unequal-sided leaves, has 

 taken its stand, just beyond, not far from where the 

 Walk and Drive begin to draw together again. Try 

 to see the witch hazel in the fall, October or November, 

 when it decks its branches gaily with its slender 

 ribbons of yellow four-petaled flowers, so daintily 

 crimped, so delicately beautiful. Surely they are fairy- 

 like as they flutter there so bravely in the keen crisp 

 air. The yellow four petals of the flowers which flut- 

 ter like tiny crimped ribbons, are inserted upon the 

 calyx. The flower has eight small stamens, only four 

 of which are perfect and have anthers. The anthers 

 carry the pollen. The other four are imperfect and 

 are scale like. The four with anthers are alternate 

 with the petals. The fruit of the witch hazel is a two 

 celled nut-like capsule, which contains two very hard 

 black seeds. When the fruit is ripe the nut opens with 

 a snap and discharges these seeds like a pop-gun. 

 William Hamilton Gibson once measured the distance 

 of some witch hazel seeds as they were discharged 

 from the nut, and found that they were thrown over 

 thirty feet, so great was the force expended. Across 

 from the witch hazel, on the right of the Walk, is 

 another hearty old white pine. The white pine has its 

 leaves in clusters of five, as has been said, and about 

 three, four, or five inches long, of a bluish-green. 

 They are very soft and slender, three-sided, needle- 

 shaped, and are whitish on the undersides. The cones 

 of the white pine are about five inches long, cylin- 



