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its northerly course, midway between Mall and Drive. 

 We pass many magnificent trees, mostly elms, and the 

 majority of these of the sweeping vase-form which is 

 so characteristic of our native species. Among them 

 you can pick out the oak-like forms of the English 

 elms, heavy of base, thick set, rough of bark, and with 

 a broad, horizontal swing of bough. Here, too, are 

 Scotch elms and smooth-leaved varieties of the English 

 elm. All are beautiful in their own ways, and as you 

 walk beneath their boughs you revel in the varied lines 

 of their forms, in their hues of bark, in their leaves, and 

 branch sprays. 



At the second fork of this Walk, the path splits 

 right and left. Let us take the right hand or easterly. 

 Not very far from the point of branching, you meet, 

 on your right, a small, umbrella-shaped tree with leaves 

 which reveal its kinship with the European ash. It is 

 the weeping variety of Fraxinus excelsior. Compare 

 its leaves with the true European ash which stands in 

 the point of the next fork of the Walk. The compound 

 leaves are made up of from five to six pairs of leaf- 

 lets, with an odd one at the end. These leaflets are 

 almost sessile (that is, stemless) on the main leaf stalk, 

 are lance-oblong, serrated and pointed. Where this 

 fine specimen of European ash rises in the point of the 

 Walk, the Walk throws out its left arm towards the 

 Casino, and if you follow it, you will pass Rose of 

 Sharon, and just across from this shrub, on your 

 right, as you go towards the Casino, another umbrella- 

 shaped tree. This tree is an elm, and is the weeping 

 variety of the Scotch elm, or, commonly, the Camper- 



