Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



ORANGE, CRIMSON, YELLOW (more or less combined in same leaf) 

 Red maple Cockspur thorn Scrub oak 



Sugar maple Dotted haw Hornbeam 



Sweet gum Black oak 



The oaks — particularly white oak — hornbeam, and 

 beech are the three sorts that retain their dried foliage 

 through the winter, and saplings are more tenacious of 

 leaves than full-grown trees. 



I have made the Park my home in winter and in 

 summer, in all sorts of weather, and watched its num- 

 berless transitions from the cold and brilliant glitter of 

 its icy branches in January to June's perfumed air, when 

 life is at the full ; and thence through the maturer, sober, 

 yet often more impressive scenes of the declining year. 

 Such intimate association makes a spot one's own in a 

 more real and satisfying sense than comes from merely 

 mercantile possession, an ownership as inalienable as 

 memory itself. But nature is too mighty to be mirrored 

 in her grander moods in any park, however spacious. 

 The scenery here is beautiful, the opportunities for study- 

 ing minutiae unsurpassed, the small ensemble effects 

 most delicate ; but the spirit is always that of sunshine, 



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