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the beech tree, but you can distinguish them from the 

 beech by their compound leaves. The leaflets are oval 

 and are from seven to eleven in number. These trees 

 belong to the great pulse family, blooming in June, in 

 long drooping panicles of fragrant white flowers. 

 About opposite the northerly one of these yellowwoods, 

 on the west of the Walk, back a little, about midway 

 toward the Drive, you will find green or mountain 

 alder, with oval or ovate leaves, rounded at the base 

 and pale green on the undersides. 



Turn off from the Walk here and pass down the 

 steps through the Arch beneath the Drive, follow this 

 branch of Walk around to the right, and proceed along 

 the border of the Drive, with it, southerly. You pass 

 some lordly old cottonwoods, clumped together. Be- 

 yond the cottonwoods, fairly well back on the slope 

 of the greensward, stands the interesting laurel or 

 shingle oak. Its leaves are lanceolate-oblong, of a 

 smooth dark green, and resemble the leaves of laurel. 

 They are generally entire (not cut), and end in an 

 abrupt point. On the undersides they are somewhat 

 downy. 



A lamp-post stands by the Drive Crossing, a little 

 further along the Walk here, and off to the east of 

 it, well back on the lawn, are black cherry (with 

 rough scaly bark), and two willow oaks east of it. 

 The oaks you know at once by their willow-like leaves. 

 They are small trees, about eighteen or twenty feet high 

 now, and are remarkably healthy in every respect. 

 The leaves are certainly anything but oak-like in ap- 

 pearance. The willow oak belongs to the sub-group of 



