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feather-like [pinna] manner), with an odd leaflet at 

 the end. In this tree the leaflets run from seven to 

 about seventeen in number. They are ovate-lanceo- 

 late, very finely and sharply serrated, and come down 

 to long point (acuminate). On the uppersides they 

 are almost smooth and are of a dark green color, but 

 on the undersides they are slightly glaucous. They 

 turn bright red in autumn. In June the tree flowers 

 in short panicles of inconspicuous greenish flowers 

 from the ends of the branches. These flowers change 

 later into small blue-black berries of about the size 

 of a pea, which hang upon the tree in grape-like clus- 

 ters late into the winter. The bark of the tree is of 

 a light gray and corky. The tree gets its botanical 

 name from two Greek words, phellos, cork, and den- 

 dron, tree. 



Picea Orientalis. (Eastern or Oriental Spruce. No. 

 90.) To find this handsome variety of spruce take 

 the right-hand Walk at the Lenox Avenue Gate, One 

 Hundred and Tenth Street.. Follow it to the west un- 

 til it throws out a short branch to the Drive; cross 

 the Drive at this point and take up the Walk again 

 on the other side of the Drive. Some steps meet you 

 here, with some good clumps of Reeve's spirsea garn- 

 ishing their easterly side. At the foot of these steps 

 turn to your left and go easterly a short space along 

 the shore walk of the Harlem Meer. The Walk 

 spreads out here in a little platform-like space to come 

 down close to the water, forming small tongues of 

 bank on either side. About opposite the easterly 

 tongue of bank that lies between water and walk, 



