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down elm. See how closely its beautiful large leaves, 

 with their strong side points shooting out from the 

 end of the leaf on either side of the terminal point, 

 resemble the leaves of the Scotch elm proper. 



Following the path again, you pass Reeve's spiraea, 

 with massy, hemispherical heads of white flowers in 

 June and the lovely bridal-wreath spiraea which, early in 

 April, stars its branches with the little hanging umbels 

 of blossoms. These are indeed lovely, miniature com- 

 pressed wreaths of the purest white, which hang four 

 or five together in little clusters or umbels along the 

 branches of this graceful bush. Its leaf is rounded at 

 the base but comes to a point at the tip, and, as its name 

 (prunifolia) implies, resembles that of the plum. 



At the next fork of the Walk, there is honey locust, 

 on your right, and, if you take the left branch here, you 

 pass, about midway between the fork here and the fork 

 beyond, two good specimens of Oriental plane tree. 

 In the elbow of the fork beyond these trees, you have 

 a well grown cluster of American hornbeams, and 

 opposite these, on your left, as you go west, is a well 

 grown Japan pagoda tree, Sophora Japonica, some of 

 whose kinsmen you met on our first ramble, in the 

 vicinity of the Arsenal. Why this tree was named 

 pagoda tree is hard to see, but its generic name, 

 Sophora, is well applied — derived from the Arabic 

 sofara, yellow, and probably refers to the yellow dye 

 made by the Japanese and Chinese from its flowers. 

 These blossoms burst out in August in great clusters 

 of yellowish-white pea-form flowers, and are sue- 



