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that wonderland which opens only for those childish 

 eyes ! 



Directly opposite the easterly end of the Swan Boat 

 House platform, on your left, as you face west, stands 

 a fine bald cypress, and directly opposite the little 

 house which bears the sign "Around the Lake, 5 cents," 

 an Austrian pine has struck its feet into the bank with 

 a determined grip. Up the hill, beyond it, a few feet, 

 is white pine again, with its characteristic level reaches 

 of boughs that mark it so distinctively. Just beyond 

 the Swan Boat House, on your right, as you continue 

 westwards, six magnificent cottonwoods {Populus 

 monilifera) rise up beside the water of the Pond. 

 Tall and fair and majestic, they lift their heads on 

 strong magnificent columns. If you love to see 

 strength of hard-finished bark, come and stand before 

 these noble specimens when the sunshine is playing 

 over their rugged, ridged and deeply-fissured ashy- 

 brown bark. Summer or winter, these trees will thrill 

 you. What shadow play sleeps in their ridged bark! 

 What showers of sunlight rain from their leaves ! What 

 majesty and nobility in their lofty trunks as they tower 

 heavenward! They seem to say in their silent way, 

 which is so eloquent : "Lo, here have we set our feet, 

 lo, here we stay !" I defy anyone to stand before these 

 trees without a feeling of reverence and respect, with- 

 out an uplifting of spirit. You cannot go away from 

 them without having had a sense of ennoblement. All 

 over the Park you meet them, foot set as if halted in 

 some mighty march whose music has never yet been 

 writ upon the staff, marching with widespread arms 



