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which are ripe in September. If you look on the 

 branches of this shrub you will find them often armed 

 with small thorns. 



Follow the Walk that runs nearly parallel with the 

 Drive, northerly, climbing an easy rise of ground, over 

 several series of rock-cut ' steps. At the west of the 

 last steps a handsome gingko stands with its up- 

 stretched branches and beautiful fan-shaped leaves. 

 Just beyond this, the Walk swells out into a little bay. 

 Along its easterly side are tall, conical masses of the 

 plume-leaved Japan arbor vitae, with lovely plume- 

 like leaves. I do not think that any other of the 

 Retinosporas can compare with this one, for fineness 

 of leaves. They are delicacy itself. Over in the 

 northwesterly bend of the bay you will find a fair- 

 sized Nordmann's silver fir. This you can know by 

 its leaves flat, linear, notched distinctly at the ends, 

 and marked with silvery lines on the undersides. 



Beyond this Retinospora-lined path, the Walk sends 

 off a short arm to the east, to cross the Drive toward 

 the Reservoir, and a little north of the place where it 

 branches off, you will find, on the west of the Walk, 

 your right, a splendid type of the Bhotan pine. This 

 is a lovely tree. Its slender leaves seem to hang in 

 tassels or bunches, and the light quivers and shimmers 

 over them at every breath of breeze. They seem ever 

 rippling with this tremulous play of light when the 

 sunshine and the breeze are upon them, and the effect 

 is certainly very beautiful. Sometimes if you stand 

 off and look at the tree, as a whole, it seems to be 

 letting fall a continuous cascade of rippling gold and 



