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wings or flanges on its leaf stem (petiole). The 

 black haw gets its name from its fruit, which is deep 

 blue or black purple when ripe. Its botanical specific 

 name prunifolium refers to its plum or cherry (prunus) 

 like leaves. To the west of the black haw is common 

 pear. 



Let us now come back to the smoke tree near the 

 Walk along which we were following. Just northwest 

 of the smoke tree is Catalpa bignonioides, about op- 

 posite the easterly end of the Arbor, on the left of the 

 Walk. Out on the stretch of lawn, midway between 

 Walk and Drive, is a shrub with small oval locust- 

 like leaves set alternately along the leaf stem, from 

 eleven to twenty-one in number. You might mistake 

 the shrub for a bristly locust a little distance away, as 

 its appearance is quite similar. In summer it wakes 

 to bloom, and, if you should pass it then, you would 

 surely stop to admire its long finger-like racemes of 

 deep purple. Indeed, they have almost a velvety look, 

 and the orange anthers (the pollen-bearing parts of 

 the stamens) set them off beautifully. These spdke- 

 like racemes change into fruit clusters which cling to 

 the shrub through the autumn and often through the 

 winter. They are made up of tiny curved pods, and 

 make an easy means of identifying the shrub in your 

 winter rambles. Just west of this Amorpha, is fra- 

 grant honeysuckle, and west of the honeysuckle stand 

 two silver maples, with black cherry beyond. Not far 

 from these, diagonally across, by the Drive, is a lamp- 

 post, and south of the lamp-post, a handsome scarlet 

 oak, in the full pride of its dark glossy green leaves 



