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here in fountain-like spray of green, with sweeping 

 branches is the lovely Lycium barbarum, matrimony 

 vine or box thorn, sending out in summer its beautiful 

 bell-shaped pale blue flowers. Beyond the Lycium is 

 Van Houtte's spiraea, then Lombardy poplar with 

 branches hugged close to the main trunk, and close 

 by the Bridge, another bush of the beautiful SpircBa 

 Van Houttei. On the left of the Walk, just beyond 

 the lamp-post, and about opposite the Weigela, a great 

 puff of feathery green tells of another Tamarix gallica. 

 Across the Bridge you pass on the right, nestling quite 

 near the corner, a fine young cockspur thorn, with 

 glossy, dark green, shining, wedge obovate leaves. 

 Rising from the masses of shrubbery here, a good 

 sized laurel-leaved willow flashes the light in showers 

 of crystal from its laurel-like eaves. Beyond is more 

 staghorn sumac, then ninebark, Forsythia viridissima, 

 Rhodotypos, and Lonicera fragantissima, the last on the 

 point where the Walk forks. On the left you passed 

 Californian privet, Lombardy poplar, syringa (Phil- 

 adelphus grandiUorus) , Judas tree, with large heart- 

 shaped leaves, golden-leaved ninebark, fine masses of 

 syringa (opposite the staghorn sumac), Judas tree 

 again close by a handsome cranberry bush, then 

 ninebark, Philadelphus grandiftorus and Spircea Van 

 Houttei on the point of the left hand fork of the Walk. 

 This fork sends out two branches, one to the right 

 creeps down around the Pond and ultimately meets 

 the path that comes down the steps by the Plaza En- 

 trance, where we started in. The left fork runs off 

 in a northeasterly direction to the Drive and follows 



