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more than midway between the Walk and the Bridle 

 Path, a good specimen of the red mulberry. Its 

 leaves are rougher on the upper sides than are those 

 of the white mulberry, and they are of a dark bluish- 

 green, whereas those of the white are glossy, shining, 

 and of a light bright green. You will know the tree 

 by its mitten-shaped or ovate (mitten without the 

 thumb) leaves. Beyond the red mulberry, close by 

 the Bridle Path, near the Bridge, you will find sweet 

 gum, easily distinguished by its star-shaped leaves. 

 Up on the Walk again, as you come near the fork, 

 is European beech, with short fat trunk, horizontal 

 boughs, and leaves which are hairy-edged and not 

 toothed. In the right corner of the fork is Scotch 

 elm, easily known by its large rough leaves which jut 

 out at the ends in one long point, with some lesser 

 points shooting out on either side below the end point, 

 just where the leaf is broadest. 



Let us now come back to where we branched off 

 by the Arch that went under the West Drive, and 

 follow the southerly trend of the Walk toward the 

 Eighth Avenue Gate. As we proceed, we have on 

 our right, in the point of the fork, a lamp-post, and 

 just west of it, a fine mass of the Rhodotypos. West 

 of it, you will see several bushes of the Vibumitm 

 tomentosum or Japonicum, with broadly ovate leaves, 

 noticeably corrugated, or crimped or folded, and with 

 rather pointed (acuminate) ends. They are handsome 

 shrubs, especially in late May or early June, when 

 they spread out their great flat cymes of pure white 

 flowers. Of these cymes the outer ring is made up 



