IN THE «RAMBLE ”—FOURTH 
EXCURSION 
“*T shall be your faithful guide 
Through this gloomy covert wide.” 
— MILTON. 
MID such a labyrinth of paths as is found in the 
A: Ramble,’’ no precise route can be laid down, 
as in our previous excursions; but the actual 
area is so small that a little patience will bring to view 
most of the large assortment there collected. It would 
be difficult, also, to state the precise number of tree- 
species in this most highly cultivated portion of the 
grounds; it must be almost or quite a hundred, as I 
found nearly eighty in a single walk through it. With- 
out cataloguing the contents, therefore, we will describe 
briefly some of the more interesting or rare sorts that 
make this perhaps the most favorable spot in the entire 
Park for this study. 
Hotiy.—A beautiful tree or shrub—usually with the 
figure of the first and the height of the second—is the 
holly, too rarely seen, whose graceful, glossy, leathery, 
and evergreen leaf is unrivalled in its kind. Florists 
are quite as much to be praised and blamed for what is 
found in lawns as the owners themselves, whose igno- 
rance very often compels them to leave the selection of 
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