In the “ Ramble ”—Fourth Excursion 
ways, and find the silent counterparts of humankind. 
A very similar growth to the foregoing is the bladder- 
senna (Colutea arborescens), also pinnate and yellow 
flowered, but the flowers are in racemes instead of 
umbels, and the leaf is odd-pinnate instead of even-pin- 
nate; which is the scientific side of the matter, and 
prosy enough, I hope, for those who have no sympathy 
with nature’s ‘‘temperament’’ and ‘‘poetry.’? The 
caragana fails of true arboreal dimensions as complete- 
ly as the staghorn sumach, but it fills a small place in 
a large way—which furnishes a good motto for all am- 
bitious folk. 
CEDAR OF LEBANON.—The species of most antique in- 
terest in the Park is the famous cedar of Lebanon, a dark, 
stern-looking evergreen that takes our thoughts across 
the sea and thousands of years into the past. This very 
tree might be descended, with only two or three inter- 
mediate generations, from one that lost its life at the 
building of Solomon’s temple, more than five hundred 
years before Plato, Socrates, and all the art and poetry 
of the Greeks, and shows the length as well as brevity 
of human history. Solomon was the most famous bota- 
nist, zoologist, and polygamist of ancient times. ‘‘ He 
spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon 
even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; he 
spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, 
and of fishes.’’ What would not modern science give 
for a transcript of the botanical, zoological, ornitholog- 
ical, entomological, and ichthyological lore of that vo- 
luptuous old wiseacre ! 
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