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are off, gives the branches a look which so closely 

 resembles the horns of a young stag, that the bush has 

 been named staghorn sumac, from that feature alone. 

 The clump here, as you see, has its end branches 

 smooth and without hairs. Opposite this clump, on 

 the right of the path, stands a good-sized American 

 hornbeam or water-beech. The hornbeam has simple, 

 alternate leaves which are straight veined, like the 

 beech and the chestnut. From here the path bends to 

 the east and crosses a vine-hung Stone Bridge, of the 

 old Roman type, which spans the waters of the Pond. 



As you go on, you pass, on your left, a good cluster 

 of bald cypresses, tall and spire-like. About opposite 

 the most easterly of these bald cypresses, close by the 

 Walk, you will find black haw (Viburnum prunifolium) 

 a small tree with simple, opposite leaves very finely 

 serrated and with little flanges (or wings) along the 

 edges of the leaf-stems (petioles). In early May or 

 June it turns into a cloud of white bloom — large, con- 

 spicuous, flat-topped clusters of flowers on the ends of 

 the branches. These change into small berries, blue- 

 black and sweet when ripe in September. But long 

 before they are ripe you can see the berries hanging 

 in green clusters on the tree. With the first biting nip 

 of frost they flush softly to a lovely pinkish-blue and 

 then, as they ripen, to blue-black. 



As you approach the Stone Bridge you pass many 

 things of interest; on your right, Ailanthus (nearly 

 opposite the lamp-post on the left of the Walk) then 

 Weigela, then staghorn sumac (note its pubescent 

 terminal branches), then pouring over the stone wall 



