ON “THE POINT” — SECOND 
EXCURSION 
‘* The knottie maples, pallid birch, hawthornes, 
The horn-bound tree that to be cloven scornes, 
The dyer’s shumach, with more trees there be, 
That are both good to use and rare to see.” 
—WILLIAM WoOobD. 
TANDING on the grand stairway at the north 
end of the Mall, and looking northeastward 
across the esplanade, one sees a narrow strip of 
land projecting into the water, which is commonly 
called ‘‘ The Point.’’ Leaving the fountain on the left, 
passing the group of magnolias, the austere cedar of 
Lebanon, and the boat-house with its numerous pleasure- 
fleet, and turning to the left, we reach the little tongue 
of land jutting into the Lake. No spot of the same area 
in the Park is so stocked with interesting trees; for ina 
length of scarcely two hundred feet one may find 
twenty-three species, single and clustered, viz.: sassa- 
fras, flowering dogwood, wild black cherry, yellow 
locust, black haw, swamp white oak, nettle-tree, white 
elm, mocker-nut hickory, white birch, paper birch, 
cockspur thorn, European bird-cherry, scarlet oak, 
hornbeam, European yew, Norway spruce, smoke-tree, 
hemlock, alder, aspen, pin oak. 
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