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tree, which is also known as the button-wood and button- 
ball, and there are many other wild trees along the Bronx 
River. Specimens of the oriental plane, a native from 
southeastern Europe to India, will also be found here. 
This is largely planted as a shade tree in Europe, and is often 
used in this country for the same purpose. The wood of 
the American plane, or button-wood, is largely used in the 
manufacture of boxes for tobacco, for furniture, and for the 
interior finishing of houses. 
The apple family and the plum family are located to the 
north of the driveway leading to the long bridge. In the 
apple family may be found some of the tree hawthorns and 
thorns, including the Washington thorn, a native of the 
southeastern United States. Following to the west are 
some of the true apples (Malus), among them the Siberian 
crab-apple, a native of eastern Asia; the cherry-leaved crab- 
apple, presumably a natural hybrid, originally from Siberia; 
the American crab-apple, from the eastern United States, 
the western crab-apple, and Soulard’s crab-apple, from 
the central United States. In the plum family, among 
others, may be found the rose-bud cherry, a Japanese plant, 
and a highly decorative species; the ordinary sweet cherry, 
originally from Europe and western Asia, a delicious fruit, 
of which there are many horticultural forms. 
Along the path in the little swale running to the west is a 
collection of the Japanese flowering cherries which are so 
highly admired by the Japanese, and this admiration is 
shared by all who see these specimens at the height of 
their loveliness which here is about the last week in April or 
the first in May. There are about one hundred trees in 
the collection, the blossoms from single to double, and the 
colors ranging from white to the deepest rose, and one with 
the blossoms a yellowish green, quite in contrast with the 
remainder. There is also in this collection a group, oc- 
cupying the point dividing the paths, of the Japanese weep- 
ing cherry; this blossoms two or three weeks earlier than the 
others; its long drooping branches, clothed with delicate 
