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which (with the exception of the mountain maple) dis- 

 tinguishes the striped maple from its fellows. These 

 keys are ripe in late August or early September. The 

 tree gets its name "Moosewood" from the fact that 

 the moose feed upon its bark and branches. You will 

 find a good specimen of this tree very near the steps, 

 back (north) of McGowan's stables. These steps 

 carry the Walk on from the Green Houses to the 

 Drive, a little north of McGowan's. Close by the 

 lower northerly corner of the steps a good hackberry 

 guards, with warty bark and oblique leaves, and a 

 little east of this tree stands the striped maple. You 

 can tell it instantly in summer by its three-lobed, 

 "goose-foot" leaves, and white streaked bark; in win- 

 ter by its bark, its richly rose-colored buds and leaf- 

 scars which are conspicuously ridged on the under- 

 sides. You will find another specimen of the tree 

 near the Walk leading in from One Hundred and 

 Sixth Street, not far to the northwest of the Chinese 

 cork tree, about half way between the third and fourth 

 forks of the Walk. 



Alnus serrulata. (Smooth Alder. No. 87.) Enter 

 the Park at the Gate at Sixth Avenue and One Hun- 

 dred and Tenth Street, left-hand Walk, and go south, 

 turn to the right and follow the shore of Harlem Meer 

 around to the west and then to the south, until you 

 come to the second place where the Walk comes down 

 close to the water's edge. Standing on this open 

 space, and facing the water (east) you will have on 

 your left, on the tongue of land between Walk and 

 water, some good specimens of the smooth alder. One 



