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like leaves. The pine in question stands just beyond the 

 witch-hazel, back from the Walk, upon the left (east) 

 bank, as you face north, looking toward the west Ram- 

 ble road stop. You can identify this pine easily by its 

 leaves, which are gathered together in bundles of three. 

 The leaves themselves are long, nearly ten inches, when 

 full grown, and are of a flexible texture, of a deep, dark 

 green hue, rather lusterless and dead in finish. If you 

 squeeze these three leaves together, you will see that 

 they are so cut as to thus form one round leaf. Press 

 the two leaves of an Austrian pine together and you get 

 one round leaf. The cone of the ponderosa is about 

 three or four inches long, with recurved (bent back) 

 prickles on the cone-scales. This is a fine, healthy sap- 

 ling here, and should grow nobly. You will find some 

 splendid specimens of the ponderosa near McGowan's 

 Pass Tavern, indicated on the map for Section No. 15 

 of this book. 



Prunus avium. (Bird Cherry. Mazzard Cherry. No. 

 26.) If you cross the Bridge leading into the westerly 

 part of tke Ramble, turn to the left, and at the next 

 right hand branch of the path, go up some steps, turn 

 to the right again, cross the Stone Arch, go southerly, 

 and just after crossing the Stone Arch, bend to your 

 right and follow the leafy path as it winds around to 

 run beside the Lake's border, about midway between 

 the point where it bent around from the Stone Arch to 

 the next fork of the path, on the westerly side of the 

 Walk, you will find two specimens of this cherry stand- 

 ing quite close together. They are not very large trees, 

 the taller of them is about twelve or fifteen feet high. 



