Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
fine specimens a little west of the menagerie, at Sixty- 
fourth Street, East. The delicately scented spice-bush is 
soon a yellow mist throughout damp woods, and, ple- 
beian as it is, is rendering artistic service in the Park, 
although it takes a million of its tiny flowers to produce 
a strong dash of color. Numerous Norway maples (the 
handsomest maple blossomer, next to the red maple, 
and often eclipsing it) are now in bloom, and add their 
quota to the prevailing tint, robed in countless clusters 
of greenish yellow flowers, like a sudden gleam of sun- 
shine through a cloud-rift. 
But it is the stately weeping willows that late in April 
are the centres of attraction in these grounds. Magnifi- 
cent in figure, their long wiry pendent yellow branches, 
flushed with the yellow hue of myriad catkins and bud- 
ding leaves, look like huge arboreal fountains of golden 
light. Throughout the year the Park shows nothing 
that is at once so majestic, airy, graceful, luminous; 
but it is an ephemeral display ; in a very few days they 
assume a deepening green, the light fades out, other 
trees come into leaf, and the willow’s peculiar glory has 
departed for another year. 
These are a few chance glimpses; but the Park is 
full of them; scene crowds upon scene through the hur- 
rying days and weeks, until the landscape lies beneath 
an icy mantle of repose. 
One of the most interesting features of arboreal 
study, especially in winter, and one for which the Park 
offers better opportunities than any number of woodland 
walks, is the character of trees as expressed by their 
bared figures, into which far more individualism has 
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