Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
with short, curved, pointed leaves. Another, with mi- 
nute, heath-like leaves, unusually beautiful when lux- 
uriant, is the (efnospora ericoides, and equally fine is 
Retinospora pisifera, a most elegant species of cypress. 
This is quite abundant, and can be recognized by its flat 
sprays of foliage, resembling arborvite, and covered 
with a white ‘‘ bloom’’ on the under side. These last 
three can be found close together in the area chiefly de- 
voted to evergreens just north of the “‘ Ramble,’’ a hun- 
dred feet west of the Reservoir. Throughout the Park 
one may find fully forty species and varieties of conifer- 
ous growth, some of them in a confirmed state of in- 
validism, and a few so stately and ornamental as to be 
an incentive to the study and cultivation of this unique 
section of our sylva. It is earnestly to be hoped that 
the conifers of the Park, as representative of the world’s 
best growth, will soon be brought up to the high stand- 
ard of its deciduous trees. 
&* 
Nothing shows better the wide variety and profusion 
of growth in the Park than the impossibility of making 
an absolutely complete inventory of its contents. After 
the most thorough search by the various gardeners, 
whose lists form the basis of the present catalogue, I 
chanced to find an oak that had not been recorded, and 
later, two foreign species; doubtless this does not make 
the record perfect. 
One of the two was the white-beam-tree (yrus aria) 
of Europe, which is close to the small building on the 
west side, near Sixty-sixth Street. It is noteworthy as 
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