X. 



WEST SEVENTY-NINTH STREET TO WEST EIGHTY- 

 SIXTH STREET 



In this Section you will find many interesting things. 

 In a way, all its own, it is, I think, one of the most at- 

 tractive parts of the Park. It is especially so along the 

 Walk by the Reservoir, where you meet the beautiful 

 Chinese golden larch, the interesting Japan cedar, the 

 Cedar of Lebanon, and many others. 



Enter at the West Eighty-first Street Gate, take the 

 Walk at your right, and proceed to the Swiss Cottage. 

 Almost as you enter, you pass a good osage orange, on 

 the right of the Walk. The lawn here swells up in a 

 gentle rise of velvet and, crowning its ridge, a gnarled 

 old hackberry twists its branches. You have, no doubt, 

 by this time learned to know this tree on sight, from its 

 trunk alone, covered as it is with warty ridges and 

 knobs. Just to the northeast of this tree you will find 

 an excellent specimen of the red mulberry, with large, 

 thick leaves, which are rough on the uppersides, and 

 of a dull, darkish green. How different these are from 

 the bright, glossy, green leaves of the white mulberry. 

 You can tell this tree easily by its leaves, which are of 

 the true mulberry cut, mitten shaped, with and without 

 thumbs. Off to the east of the red mulberry, you will 

 see European larch, full of its black cones. On your 

 left, you will find, opposite a lamp-post by the Drive, 



