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simply a ball of closely compressed drupes. Each of 

 these drupes are oblong and filled with a milk-like 

 juice. And don't the squirrels love them! The osage 

 stands about opposite another honey locust. Going 

 to the Arbor over the Walk, near West Seventy-second 

 Street Gate, standing close by its southwesterly end, 

 is a basswood, with large (four to six inches) lop- 

 sided heart-shaped leaves, with the largest side of the 

 leaf nearest the branch. The fruits look like good- 

 sized woolly peas. Off to the west of the basswood, 

 down the bank, thrusting its leaves over the Bridle 

 Path, is a small alternate-leaved dogwood. If you can 

 get close enough to it, you will see that its leaves 

 are set alternately on the branches, especially at the 

 end-branches — a feature quite distinct from the other 

 cornels which have their leaves all opposite on the 

 branch. 



Let us now come back to the Sheepfold and make 

 the circuit of the Green. We cross the Drive and 

 continue our ramble along the southerly side of the 

 broad open stretch which has been so aptly called the 

 "Green." As we enter upon it, on our right, stands 

 a fine old swamp white oak, and opposite to it, in 

 the left-hand corner, a pin oak. Note the different 

 character of bark on these two trees — the smooth 

 steel-gray of the pin oak, streaked with black, and the 

 rough ash-gray of the swamp oak, cut in long flatfish 

 strip-like scales or plates which have a rather shaggy 

 look. Beyond the swamp white oak are two Turkey 

 oaks, easily known by their dark heavily-ridged bark, 

 and beyond the Turkey oaks, a splendid red oak. 



