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its leaf, might be mistaken for a scarlet-fruited haw- 

 thorn, for indeed the leaves are rather similar. But 

 the lack of any thorns on the tree relieves it at once 

 of that accusation. As has been said above, the tree 

 belongs to the mountain-ash family, and in May breaks 

 out its flowers in broad white corymbs which change 

 later, with clusters of roundish orange-red berries 

 crowded closely together. The leaves of the tree are 

 dark-green on the uppersides, but are very white 

 (tomentose) on the undersides. In shape they are 

 roundish-ovate or oblong-oval, generally wedge-shaped 

 at the base, either acute or obtuse at the point, and 

 with margins sharply and doubly serrate. Continu- 

 ing along the Walk, beyond the white beam tree, you 

 pass, on your left, Norway spruce with dark sombre 

 branches that droop in A-form on either side of the 

 main boughs. You know it is a spruce, because its 

 leaves are four-sided. A white mulberry with mitten- 

 shaped leaves stands just beyond it. As the Walk 

 curves around to meet the Border Walk, about half 

 way around, on your right, is a fine mass of common 

 elder. See it in June when it lays over its rolling 

 masses of green the lace of its white kerchiefs of bloom 

 — the lovely broad flat corymbs of its white flowers. 

 In the point of the Walk's junction with the Border 

 Walk, is a beautiful mass of the Ramanas rose. This 

 is made up mostly of the white-flowered variety. Diag- 

 onally across on the bed at the north of the Border 

 Walk you will find the pink and the white-flowered 

 varieties of this handsome rose beautifully inter- 

 mingled. The leaflets of this rose run in fives to nines. 



