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Ball Ground, quite a cluster of Turkey oaks, almost 

 in line with each other. These can be picked out easily 

 by their thick dark, almost black, bark, heavily ridged, 

 and by their rich, glossy green oblong leaves, very 

 deeply and unequally notched into pinnate sinuses. 

 They are set to the branch on very short stalks, and 

 you may know them from the English oak's leaves, 

 which they sometimes slightly resemble, by their bases, 

 which are wedge-shaped and not eared — a feature 

 which is characteristic of the leaf of the English oak. 

 The leaf lobe of the Turkey oak is rather angularly 

 cut, whereas that of the English is round cut. The 

 acorn of the Turkey oak is a wild-looking thing, in- 

 deed, covered as it is with frouzled ends of fringe 

 which puts to shame the tangled cups of even the 

 bur oak's acorn. You can compare the Turkey and 

 English oak here easily. The cluster standing almost 

 east of the Oriental plane tree are Turkey oaks, and 

 the single tree south of these is English oak. You 

 will note that these are almost in line, due north, of 

 the lamp-post by the Bridle Path below. If you fol- 

 low the path from the Oriental plane tree, directly 

 opposite its next fork with the Walk, are two hand- 

 some bushes of the Deutzia crenata. One has white 

 flowers, and the other, white flowers softly tinged with 

 pink. 



Continuing eastward, the Walk comes to a fork 

 beyond, its right branch passing over the Bridge by 

 which we began this ramble about the Ball Ground. 

 Near the fork you will find, on the left of the Walk, 

 a handsome sugar maple, and across from it, a little 



