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summer it blooms in conspicuous cymes, distinctly 

 panicled, of cream-white flowers, and these are suc- 

 ceeded in late August by white berries on red stems. 

 This shrub is often confused with Cornus stricta, from 

 its upright form of growth. But stricta has both sides 

 of the leaves green and carries pale blue berries. 



Diagonally opposite the panicled dogwood, a little 

 east of south, just over the fence at your left, gathered 

 in tangled but pleasing bramble, you will find the 

 European blackberry, Rubus fruiicosus. This blooms 

 in early spring with pretty rosette-like pink double 

 flowers. You will know it by its blackberry-like leaves. 

 Diagonally opposite the panicled dogwood, a little west 

 of south, close by the fence, with conspicuously three- 

 lobed leaves, you will easily recognize the handsome 

 Japan ivy Ampelopsis tricuspidata. This vine has the 

 added beauty of having variegated leaves. A little 

 beyond the Ampelopsis, a good-sized cockspur thorn 

 stands by the fence, on your left, and throws over the 

 Walk its beautiful glossy wedge-oval leaves, broad at 

 the top and narrowing to a tapering base. Its long, 

 slender but very sharp thorns will identify it for you. 

 The cockspur usually develops a very flattish head, and 

 this tree shows the characteristic mark. 



As the Walk makes its bend to the right and climbs 

 a rise toward the swings, almost in the elbow of its 

 turn, on your right, is a white oak. As you go up 

 the rise, just beyond the lamp-post at the bend of the 

 Walk, out by the border of the Bridle Path, south- 

 westerly, is sweet gum — a tall rough-barked tree with 

 good-sized star-shaped leaves. As the path ascends. 



