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from this buckthorn, is a black cherry, with rough, scaly 

 bark. Continuing on the right of the Walk, are two 

 sycamore maples, close together, with another of the 

 same kind further to the north of them. Beyond the 

 tree is a red maple, with very handsome, light-gray 

 bark and leaves three to five-lobed. Directly opposite 

 this red maple, across the Walk, is Japan quince, rich 

 in thorns, and off to one side of the quince is panicled 

 dogwood. Note the whitish undersides of the leaves. 

 Just beyond these the Walk branches, with an arm to 

 the west. Close by the first steps here is red maple, 

 by the second steps, sycamore maple and American 

 elm opposite each other, with a mass of ninebark, at 

 the right of the steps, beyond them. The leaves of 

 this shrub are three-lobed. A little beyond, on the 

 right, near a sycamore maple, is a young swamp white 

 oak, and quite near the Drive, on your left, American 

 hornbeam. 



Come back now to the Boat House. Close by it, to 

 the north, you will find several good specimens of the 

 black willow, with the undersides of their leaves green, 

 differing in this respect from the vitellina, which you 

 met before at the beginning of this ramble near the 

 Lily Pond. In the loops of ground at the Boat House, 

 are varnish tree and fringe tree, in the northerly loop. 

 The varnish tree has compound leaves, the fringe tree, 

 simple. In the southerly loop are two European bird 

 cherries. In the border bed, at the south of the Boat 

 House, are double-flowering crab apple, and then two 

 yellowwoods. These are side by side. The yellow- 

 woods have smooth light-gray bark, like the bark of 



