TREES AND SHRUBS 



OF CENTRAL PARK 



I. 



THE POND AND VICINITY. 



As you enter the Park at the Plaza Entrance, 

 Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, if you love 

 color and the flash of crystal light over glossy leaves, 

 you will stop to look at the lusty bushes of Califor- 

 nian privet on your left. Their rich life-full deep 

 green foliage flings off the light in white fire at every 

 touch of the breeze, and, if you watch them sway, 

 you will see the deep sea-green flash into lighter 

 green, as they toss up the undersides of their leaves 

 or perchance your eye will catch that ice-like glint of 

 white sunlight just as they turn. 



One cannot speak too highly of the Californian 

 privet. You can know that it is the Californian 

 privet and not the common privet by its leaves, which 

 are larger and oval, while the leaves of the common 

 privet (Ligustmm vulgare) are eliptic - lanceolate. 

 Besides, the Californian's color is richer, glossier and 

 more of a deep sea-green shade, while the common 

 privet's leaf has more of a bottle-green color. 



