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this lamp are clustered several things of interest. 

 South of it is cabbage rose again, and south of this, 

 sweetbrier. West of the cabbage rose is fringe tree, 

 lovely in June, with its fluffs of purest white; west 

 of the fringe tree, and a little to the north, is 

 shrub-yellowroot, with its pinnately (sometimes bi- 

 pinnately) compound leaves. These are usually five- 

 lobed. Northeast of .the shrub-yellowroot stands 

 Fortune's white spiraea, with small fine leaves and 

 tiny fairy-like white flowers in early spring. If you 

 follow the border of the Drive around toward the 

 Terrace, you will find, near the second lamp, the hand- 

 somest cluster of gingko trees in the Park. They 

 are superb! You can know them at once by their 

 fan-shaped leaves, or, better still, by their maiden- 

 hair fern-like leaves. How lovely they are, with their 

 great long branches growing from the main trunk 

 at angles of about forty-five degrees. What a glory 

 is their green! And when autumn changes this to a 

 soft lemon yellow, ask for no richer sight. 



Directly north of these fine gingko trees, quite 

 near the Drive, is a bush with its leaves in fives. It 

 is the European bladder nut, Staphylea pinnata, with 

 small, hanging clusters of flowers, when in bloom, in 

 May or June. 



Let us now come back to the southern end of the 

 Mall, and follow the left branch of the Walk which 

 turns ofif by the Statue of Columbus. Its first arm 

 leads us past a fine old horsechestnut, a spreading 

 European beech, and a sturdy English elm at the left 

 of the second fork. The Walk bends here to the 



