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leaflets. In summer this tree throws out conspicuous 

 clusters of yellow flowers in dense terminal panicles, 

 and these flowers are succeeded, in the autumn, by 

 queer-looking bladdery pods which contain the seeds 

 packed away in three-celled compartments at the base 

 of the pod. These pods are of a light green hue at 

 first, but change, as the fall comes on, to a bronze 

 brown, and, as they are very conspicuous and hang on 

 the tree late in winter, they are an easy means of iden- 

 tification, for the rambler, at that time of year. 



On the right of the Walk, diagonally opposite these 

 two Kcelreuterias are three small bushes, not any of 

 them doing over-well. They are Tartarian honey- 

 suckle (the easterly bush), Arrowwood (the middle 

 bush, with saw-cut leaves), and Spiraa Van Houttei 

 (the westerly bush). They are just over the fence, 

 about midway to the water. 



As you continue along the Walk, westward, on the 

 left, nearly opposite the fourth large Cottonwood, you 

 will see masses of ninebark, Physocarpus (or Spirma) 

 opuUfolia. You can know them by their rather three 

 lobed leaves and by the tattered shreds of bark that 

 cling about their stems. Surely these ragged rem- 

 nants seem to give some propriety to the name "nine- 

 bark,"for the bark certainly looks as if it had been 

 peeled more than nine times. Almost under this hand- 

 some Cottonwood is a young Austrian pine, and there 

 is another coming up by the Cottonwood, near the lamp- 

 post here. 



At this point the path throws oS. a short arm to the 

 left, up a little run of steps toward the Sixth Avenue 



