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your left to a left-hand branch of this Walk. Just back 

 of the lamp-post is a fine, old scarlet oak, with deeply- 

 cut, bristle-tipped leaves. On the very point of the left 

 hand border, where the Walk throws off its branch to 

 run on about parallel with Fifty-ninth Street, you will 

 find a Scotch elm {Ulmus Montana). 



We will not continue further on this Walk, but will 

 go back now to the spot where we turned off by the 

 Paulownia below, to the Walk leading northerly from 

 the Sixth Avenue Gate. We will follow this Walk as 

 it leads on northerly from the fork by the Deutzia 

 gracilis and the Paulownia Following the path in its 

 northerly course past large masses of rock on either 

 hand, over which trailing vines fall in lovely cascades 

 of green, joyous sights for city eyes on coming from 

 the streets, hot and baking, on a midsummer day. 

 Passing by these, you come on the right, about midway 

 between the fourth and fifth forkings of the Walk, 

 from the Sixth Avenue Entrance, to a good well-grown 

 Austrian pine. Its stocky, chunky form, with its long, 

 wire-like needles, two in a sheath or bundle, will mark 

 it for you. A little down the slope of the hill from it, 

 toward the right, wave the feathery plumes of the beau- 

 tiful tamarisk ( Tamarix Gallica) . Every breeze sways 

 and bends its lovely sprays of feathery green as if it 

 loved them, and the whole shrub seems alive with the 

 very quintessence of joy. Its fineness and grace and 

 its soft, tender, delicate green must surely stir you like 

 a fine poem or lulling of exquisite music. Not far from 

 the Tamarix, a little back toward Sixth Avenue, you 

 will find the dwarf mountain sumac (Rhus copallina). 



