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are herbaceous plants, termed Amsonia salicifolia ot 

 willow-leaved Amsonia. They get their name from 

 Charles Amson. The Amsonia belongs to the dogbane 

 family. It bears very pretty sky-blue, star-like flowers 

 with salver-shaped corollas in May; dies down to 

 the ground in winter, and comes up again from the 

 roots in spring. A little further along you will see a 

 healthy young American hornbeam, with the birch-like 

 leaves which are so characteristic of the hornbeam. 

 Further on, you come to another good clump of Am- 

 sonia, and beyond it Reeve's spirwa, with lance-oblong 

 leaves, often quite distinctly three-pointed. This 

 Spiraea bears very showy white flowers in June, in 

 large corymbs. Growing in with it is a young English 

 maple. 



Continuing along, you meet, still on your right, a 

 little back from the Walk, by the rocks, a broad-spread- 

 ing, brown-barked tree with smooth, shining light- 

 green leaves, which are variously shaped, some mitten- 

 like with the thumb on one side or the other, or both 

 sides at once, some without the thumb at all. These 

 mitten-shaped leaves tell you at once that it is a mul- 

 berry, and its smooth (upper side), shining leaves tell 

 you it is the white mulberry. You cannot mistake 

 this tree, for it stands directly opposite a lamp-post 

 which stares boldly upon it from the other (your left) 

 side of the Walk. Directly under this handsome mul- 

 berry are great masses of the Japan variety of hedge 

 bind-weed, Polygonum cuspidatum or Polygonum Sie- 

 boldi, with splendid, broad, oval-oblong stalked leaves 

 which come to an acute point at the tip. This bushy 



