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on the upper side. The branches of the honeysuckle 

 are also hairy. It is a native of China, but has been 

 naturalized in England and this country. 



Coming back now to the fork of the Walk by the 

 Dairy, let us take the left-hand branch and go west- 

 ward and northward. Just beyond the Japan quince, 

 on your left, is Crataegus macracantha, with its glossy 

 oval leaves. Opposite to it, on the right of the Walk, 

 is shadbush with its beautifully marked bark, steel- 

 gray with darker lines like veins streaking it in a 

 way which if once noted will never be forgotten. This 

 is its special winter mark and its glory. The shad- 

 bush is very beautiful in early spring when it sends 

 out its cherry-like blossoms in white flowered racemes 

 from the ends of the branches just before its leaves 

 begin to appear. Its leaves are very finely serrate, 

 one of nature's specimens of art work in leaf cutting. 

 They are about three inches long, varying from a 

 rather oblong shape to a roundish or heart-shaped 

 form. The fruit of the shrub is a small globular berry 

 of a beautifully purplish color and about half an inch 

 in diameter. It is edible and good to the taste. Con- 

 tiauing on your left, you meet sycamore maple, just 

 this side of the lamp-post, which directly fronts the 

 northerly arm of the Walk. Let us proceed now along 

 this northerly arm. At our left is cornelian cherry of 

 the dogwood family, which is almost the earliest of 

 the shrubs to break into bloom. When the crow black 

 birds send out their wheezy cackling calls you can look 

 for the pretty close-clustered clover-looking yellow 

 flowers of the cornelian cherry. They burst out in 



