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on your left, is American hazel, with leaves slightly 

 heart-shaped at the base, rather broadly oval and more 

 or less pointed at the tip. Where the border bed of 

 the Walk narrows here, a white pine spreads its open- 

 hearted, level boughs, and on your right, as you now go 

 southerly, not far from the fork of the Walk beyond, you 

 will see a large mass of the gladsome cup plant starring 

 out its beautiful yellow flowers in summer. You can 

 recognize it easily by its very square stems and leaves 

 that clasp about the stems in a way that is truly cup- 

 like. In the right hand corner of the fork, beyond, is 

 another white pine. 



Had you taken the left branch of the Walk, after 

 passing around behind the Mineral Spring House, it 

 would have led you by cockspur thorn (on your right $ 

 as you passed westerly) and Scotch elm ( diagonally 

 across from the cockspur thorn. The thorn has glossy, 

 wedge, obovate leaves ; the elm, large, thick leaves with 

 a long, abrupt point on either side of which lesser 

 points jut out conspicuously. A handsome mass of 

 the large-flowered syringa banks the border bed, on 

 your right, where it narrows to a point between Walk 

 and Drive. Beyond is a lamp-post, and opposite to it, 

 on your left, back on the greensward a little, is guelder 

 rose or common snowball, one of the viburnums. You 

 can know it easily by its three-lobed leaves. In the 

 guelder rose all the individual flowers are sterile and 

 form large, round heads of bloom. This shrub is really 

 the sterile variety of the common high-bush cranberry. 

 Compare the leaves of this shrub with those of the 

 high-bush cranberry in other parts of the Park, and 



