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several small Nordmann's silver firs. You know them 

 readily by their leaves, narrow, linear, about an inch 

 long, with a small but very distinct cut or notch at the 

 tip, and with fine, silvery lines on the undersides. Near 

 the point of the Walk with the fork beyond, you will 

 see another evergreen. It is the fourth from the end 

 here and is a fair specimen of Oriental spruce. Note 

 the difference between a leaf of this tree and a leaf of 

 the Nordmann. The leaf of the spruce is four-sided, 

 the leaf of the fir is flat. This is one of the chief points 

 of difference between the spruce and the fir. The foli- 

 age of the Oriental spruce is dark green. Its leaves 

 are very short, quarter of an inch, blunt and stubby. 

 Next to the spruce you pass cockspur thorn, then 

 Fontanesia, with willow-like leaves, and, in the angle 

 of the fork made by the junction of the Walks, coral- 

 berry or Indian currant. 



Continuing to the southeast, where this Walk crosses 

 the Drive, you will find, on your left, European white 

 birch; on your right, Cephalotaxus. Look at the un- 

 dersides of these leaves. You see they are distinctly 

 whitish. This is one of its distinguishing marks, by 

 which you can immediately tell it from the English 

 yew, the leaves of which its leaves closely resemble. 

 The undersides of the yew's leaves are yellowish green. 



Cross the Drive, and take up the Walk, south, to the 

 crossing that leads to the Swiss cottage. Just as you 

 cross here to the Cottage, you have on your left, in the 

 point of the bed between Walk and Drive, a good sized 

 Austrian pine and a mass of beautiful Reeve's spiraea 

 with rather lanceolate leaves. 



