52 



when it is in full fruit, you might easily mistake its 

 V seeds for elm seeds. But, of course, its leaves will 

 set you right. The tree blooms with quite conspicuous 

 flowers in June, greenish-white cymes which smell 

 rather disagreeably. The Walk you are now on leads 

 out upon a Walk that runs alongside the Drive. Just 

 as you come out upon the Drive-walk, you will see, 

 clustered close together on your left, three good-sized 

 white pines with horizontal boughs, fine delicate 

 needles, from three to five inches long, gathered to- 

 gether in bundles of five. 



On your right, opposite the pines, is a large clump 

 of Rhodoiypos, and behind it, tall and spire-like, a fine 

 bald cypress, with beautiful feather-like leaves. Here 

 we have come to the Drive-walk. If you turn to the 

 left, and go back southerly toward Fifty-ninth Street, 

 you will pass, about midway between the junction here 

 and the Arch over the Transverse Road, a good clump 

 of box. This is on the border of the Walk, on your 

 left, as you go south. Just beyond, you come to a 

 Bridge which spans the Transverse Road. If you 

 stand on it and face east, in its left-hand corner, is 

 English elm, and, down by the road, at the right, ris- 

 ing up and flashing its glossy leaves, close within 

 reach, is a good osage orange. The osage orange's 

 branches show small thorns or spines in the axils of the 

 leaves, and, on this tree, they are very strong and 

 easily seen. If you take the northerly branch from the 

 junction of the Walks by the three white pines and 

 bald cypress above, it will lead you by some Philadel- 

 phus Gordonianus, on your right, bordering the Walk. 



