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leaves), and in winter you can tell it from the beech by 

 its not pointed buds ; from the silver linden, by its lack 

 of haystack or sugar-loaf form. The silver linden is 

 easily known in summer by its cordate leaves, white 

 beneath, and in winter by its sugar-loaf form, smooth, 

 plump, satin-gray limbs — they always make me think 

 of organ pipes. The silver linden seems to often shoot 

 up its branches many together from a common base, in 

 a kind of fountain form which easily marks it in 

 winter. 



But to come back to our beech by the Arbor. You 

 see its toothless leaves mark it at once one of the Eu- 

 ropean species. On going through the Arbor you meet, 

 on your right, a few feet from its end, a good sized 

 white ash, with strong, rugged, heavily-fissured bark, 

 cut by cross lines so regularly as to give a lozenge- 

 shape effect to the run of the bark. The white ash is a 

 tall, strong tree, and can be identified by its compound 

 leaves made up of from five to nine leaflets, the leaflets 

 in pairs with the odd one terminal. The leaflets have a 

 kind of crimpy margin and are on stems which carry 

 the bases of the leaflets well away from the main leaf 

 stem, a feature which is especially characteristic of the 

 white and red ash. The end leaflet has quite a decided 

 length of stem. The leaflets are ovate, lance-pointed, 

 of a bright, smooth green on the uppersides but of a 

 soft, pale green on the undersides. Almost directly 

 opposite the white ash, on the left of the Walk, you 

 will find a little sapling swamp white oak, now about 

 four or five feet high. 



A little further on the Walk forks, by the Carousel. 



