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As this Walk approaches the Drive, there is a good 

 specimen of American arbor vitae and a golden plume- 

 leaved retinospora. The American arbor vitae is easily 

 distinguished by the glands on the backs of its closely 

 appressed scale-like leaves, and the retinospora by its 

 fine plume-like leaf-sprays. 



Let us turn here and follow the trend of the Walk 

 northerly along the east side of the Green. We pass 

 a cluster of silver maples, then a struggling little hem- 

 lock, and then some good specimens of American elm. 

 These are near a lamp-post by the Drive. Now we 

 go northerly, and opposite another lamp-post by Drive 

 (about half way to the next off-shoot of Walk) is 

 silver maple with a red maple beside it. 



At the next fork of the Walk, the left-hand branch 

 cuts across the upper part of the Green. Let us take 

 it. At the right-hand corner of this path, as you go 

 westerly, is a good white pine that still sings its re- 

 quiem music to the sweep of winter winds. A lordly 

 group of tulip trees are clustered together, a little 

 further along on your right (north), with tall col- 

 umnar trunks and white seed "cones" against the 

 autumn sky. Opposite these, on the other side of the 

 Walk, is catalpa. A little further on, as you go west- 

 erly, a rock cuts up through the swelling greensward. 

 In its easterly shoulder, a little black haw leans out 

 most invitingly. At the northerly end of the rock is 

 American chestnut. Back of the chestnut, on the rock 

 is a ragged old red cedar with bare trunk and close 

 scale-like leaves (awl-shaped on the younger growths). 

 South of this red cedar, and about west of the black 



