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green and generally smooth. Its flowers are bright 

 red, and its fruit is smooth, oblong and about an inch 

 in length, which distinguishes it from the large (about 

 two inches broad) roundish fruit of the fiava. 



We will not continue further on this Walk, but go 

 back to the Arch by the Cephalotaxus, and follow the 

 Walk that trends southward along the shores of the 

 Pond. 



This Walk runs on by the Pond, southwards, past 

 great masses of the Japan hedgebindweed, Polygonum 

 cnspidatum, embowering a long stretch of the right- 

 hand border of the Walk between the junction of the 

 path leading under the Arch and the next branching 

 of the Walk by the Moore Statue. As you follow 

 along by the Polyganmn, about midway between the 

 two forks, rising up at the water's edge, is a good- 

 sized European alder, with leaves noticeably notched 

 at the top. You can know it easily by its "cones," as 

 it is the only alder growing here. 



A little further along you come, on the right, to a 

 pine tree with short twisted leaves two or three inches 

 long, of a glaucous green shade, gathered two together 

 in a fascicle or sheath. This is the Scotch pine, and 

 it is doing very poorly here, surely. Beyond, close by 

 the Walk, on the same side is a fine mass of the For- 

 sythia suspensa. You can tell it by its long sweeping 

 recurring branches and by its broad ovate leaves, very 

 different from the narrow lance-like leaves of the For- 

 sythia viridissima. Passing on, you come to a spot 

 where the water slips in close to the Walk. Over- 

 hanging it, from the northerly shore, are European or 



