Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
ORANGE, CRIMSON, YELLOW (more or less combined in same leaf) 
Red maple Cockspur thorn Scrub oak 
Sugar maple Dotted haw Hornbeam 
Sweet gum Black oak 
SCARLET 
Sumachs Scarlet oak Black haw 
Flowering dogwood Sour gum Sorrel-tree 
BROWNISH 
White ash Blue ash American elm 
Red ash Black ash Buttonwood 
The oaks—particularly white oak—hornbeam, and 
beech are the three sorts that retain their dried foliage 
through the winter, and saplings are more tenacious of 
leaves than full-grown trees. 
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I have made the Park my home in winter and in 
summer, in all sorts of weather, and watched its num- 
berless transitions from the cold and brilliant glitter of 
its icy branches in January to June’s perfumed air, when 
life is at the full; and thence through the maturer, sober, 
yet often more impressive scenes of the declining year. 
Such intimate association makes a spot one’s own ina 
more real and satisfying sense than comes from merely 
mercantile possession, an ownership as inalienable as 
memory itself. But nature is too mighty to be mirrored 
in her grander moods in any park, however spacious. 
The scenery here is beautiful, the opportunities for study- 
ing minutiz unsurpassed, the small ensemble effects 
most delicate ; but the spirit is always that of sunshine, 
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