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tree alder and European birch. On the southerly 

 shore are several very handsome European beeches, 

 with short thick smooth gray trunks, horizontal 

 branches and toothless leaves. Here the Walk throws 

 off another branch, out to the Drive. There is a bust 

 of Moore, the poet, along its northerly side. Just at 

 the bend of the branch you will see a handsome haw- 

 thorn with elegant shining clean leaves of a beautiful 

 dark green and branches set with strong, somewhat 

 reddish, thorns. This is Cratagus macracantha. Across 

 the Walk, at the bend of the southern border, are two 

 Van Houtte's spiraeas. If you should follow this 

 branch Walk out past Moore's Statue toward the Drive 

 you will come upon a fine catalpa and some well-grown 

 horsechestnuts. Following the Pond path, southerly, 

 you pass near the duck pen, where the water again 

 comes very close to the path, several good American 

 hornbeams with birch-like leaves and strong muscle- 

 like looking branches, smooth bark streaked with fine 

 veins of silvery gray. The European hornbeam has 

 less of this pronounced muscle-like ridging of its 

 branches. On the other side of this little duck pen 

 the Walk rambles beside more masses of the Japan 

 Polygonum. About midway between the duck pen 

 and the next fork of the Walk (the last by the extreme 

 southeasterly corner of the Pond) stands another good- 

 sized American hornbeam and, beside it, further along, 

 is black haw again. On the other side of the path, 

 the left as you go south, is a shrub with low sweeping 

 branches which arch and curve in beautifully tangled 

 masses. This shrub, Cornus stolonifera, as its name 



