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of sterile flowers. The fruit of this shrub is a red 

 egg-shaped berry, which later changes color from red 

 to bluish-black. 



As you go on, a Norway maple meets you on your 

 left, then black haw, with its roundish leaves lightly 

 winged on the stems, and then, on the right of the 

 Walk, cockspur thorn again. Very near the next 

 fork of the Walk you meet Austrian pine, cockspur 

 thorn again, and two more Austrian pines, one just 

 beyond the other. Almost opposite the first of these, 

 on the left of the Walk, is American basswood. To 

 the west of the second Austrian pine are two well- 

 grown white pines. The white pine's leaves are slen- 

 der, about five inches long, and are gathered together 

 in bundles (fascicles) of ftve; the Austrian's leaves 

 are long, wire-like, stiiifish and thickish, sharp pointed, 

 and are gathered together in bundles of two each. 

 The Austrian's leaves are rounded on the outside, but 

 are flat on the inside, so that, when you press together 

 the two leaves of a single fascicle, the leaves seem 

 like one round leaf, so squarely do the two flat inner 

 sides fit together. The way, or rather one way, to 

 tell to what species a pine belongs, is to count the 

 leaves in a bundle or fascicle, measure them, and 

 examine their surfaces. Usually the number of leaves 

 in a fascicle, and the length of the leaf will be enough 

 to identify. In the Park the pines most frequently 

 met with are the white, leaves in fives and about five 

 inches long; Swiss stone, leaves in fives, about the 

 same length, but triangular and glcmcous; Bhotan, 

 leaves in fives, but about ten inches long, and very 



