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bloom are white and four-petaled. These are suc- 

 ceeded by light-blue berries. 



Spiraea Bumalda. (Bumald's Spircea. Near No. 26.) 

 In the burning days of July or August, look for the 

 deep-pink flowers of the Bumald's spiraea. To me it 

 always suggests the Joe Pye weed that comes upon us 

 with such lovely and cool delight along the dusty road- 

 sides of midsummer highways in the country. Its cool, 

 subdued hue is restful to the eye, and you can stand and 

 look down upon the open face of this frank little shrub 

 with a sense of keen refreshment, all the keener, because 

 the atmosphere quivers about you with the trembling 

 heat of a summer's day. 



This undaunted little shrub bravely spreads its rosy 

 plume quite near the westerly storax, by the pathside 

 which cuts the lawn south of the Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art. It is only a few feet high, and you perhaps 

 would scarcely notice it except when in bloom. If it 

 is not in flower, you can tell it by its ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves of about three inches in length. These leaves 

 are smooth and are doubly serrate, quite sharply so. 

 The Anthony Waterer variety of this spiraea has bright 

 crimson flowers in close, dense heads, and is often con- 

 fused with the Bumalda. 



Styrax Japonica. (Japan Storax. No. 26.) If you 

 enter at the Eighty-first Street Gate, from Fifth Ave- 

 nue, and follow the path along the southerly side of 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to a point about oppo- 

 site the extreme southwesterly corner of the Museum, 

 then cross the Drive, due south, and pick up the path 

 again, going southerly, not very far along, you will 



