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clusters of white from the ends of the branches. It is 

 not a large tree, and you can know it easily by its posi- 

 tion, just a little northwest of the large boulder here; 

 by its broadly ovate leaves of light, bright green, with 

 margins finely and obtusely serrated and often with 

 cordate or heart-shaped bases. The ends of the leaves 

 are short pointed. Both leaves and flowers are very 

 fragrant, and the latter are used by perfumers. Small 

 dark-red, acrid berries succeed the fragrant flowers. 



As you come near the Arbor, not much further along 

 from the boulder here, just before you come to it, there 

 is a fine European beech close by the Walk, on your 

 right. You can know it by its light gray, smoothish 

 bark. Some one has called the gray of the beech ele- 

 phantine in color. The designation is very close, espe- 

 cially where the bark seems to fold and wrinkle, like 

 hide. Granite gray, of the quincy shade, is close to it 

 also. When you meet a tree with a gray, smooth bark 

 in the Park, it is either a beech, a yellow-wood, or a 

 silver linden. How can you tell them apart ? The Eu- 

 ropean beech is short-trunked and has a broad, hori- 

 zontal swing of bough, and its leaves are entire, not 

 toothed, and are very hairy on the margin. The Ameri- 

 can beech carries a toothed leaf, somewhat like a broad- 

 leaved chestnut, and the tree grows much more lofty in 

 branching habit. In winter you can tell the beech by 

 its spindle-shaped or cigar-shaped buds — long, slim, 

 flat in the middle, with pointed ends. There is a world 

 of knowledge in the study of the winter buds. Try to 

 gain it. The yellow-wood you know in summer by its 

 compound leaf (the beech and linden have simple 



