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beria. It has a peculiar trick of blooming in September 

 or October. Its foliage is certainly exquisitely beauti- 

 ful. Near the place where the Walk begins to bend 

 southerly is American basswood, with large, heart- 

 shaped leaves. Southeast of the lamp, just beyond, 

 are three handsome beeches. The northerly one is 

 American, the easterly is European, and the westerly 

 is a purple-leaved European. This is a good place to 

 note the differences of leaf in the European and native 

 beech — the tooth leaves of the latter and the entire, 

 hairy-margined leaves of the former. Where the Walk 

 crosses from the Casino you will find an old weep- 

 ing European silver linden letting fall its pendulous 

 boughs, making noble shade in summer. Following 

 the path on southwards, about opposite the next lamp, 

 east of it, is swamp white oak. Still keeping to the 

 south, the path meets another Drive-crossing and then 

 bends swiftly away from it to the southeast. On your 

 left, close to the Walk, is another pin oak with steel- 

 gray bark streaked with black. On your right, about 

 due west of this pin oak, midway between Walk and 

 Drive, is a weeping European beech. You cannot mis- 

 take its weeping form. It looks like a fountain of fall- 

 ing green in summer; in winter, like some mighty 

 harp on which a jotun might play the war song of 

 the winds. A little northeast of the pin oak is another 

 Turkey oak, with thick, heavily-ridged, rough, black 

 bark, and south of this a pin oak again, with bristle- 

 tipped leaves. 



Continuing along the Walk, you pass, close by the 

 path, Oriental plane tree with its spotted bark, then 



