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and the branch stems are densely thick with prickles 

 and bristles. They look "mossy" with them. The 

 leaflets are dark glossy and shining green on the upper- 

 sides. 



If you follow the trend of the Border Walk here, 

 easterly, about midway opposite the bank of the pink 

 and white Ramanas rose, you will find, on your right, 

 a fair specimen of the Fontanesia — ^the same kind of 

 shrub, with the willow-like leaves you met down in 

 Section No. i, near the Bosc's red ash and the Dairy. 

 Beyond the Fontanesia here, a little beyond a point 

 about opposite the "Falconer," but close by the right- 

 hand border of the Walk, you come to American 

 strawberry bush, and beside it, the beautiful Siberian 

 or Mountain ash-leaved spiraea The former has ovate- 

 lanceolate simple leaves, the latter has compound leaves, 

 which closely resemble the leaves of the mountain ash. 

 The Siberian spiraea blooms in July in great white 

 fluffs that are welcome sights at that time of year, 

 when you wonder that anything has energy enough to 

 show a petal of bloom. 



Should you follow the path around by the Drive, 

 easterly, it will lead you past a splendid sweep of green 

 to the fork where you turned off to go toward the 

 Mineral Spring House. As you come to the rock 

 mass (on your right) about opposite the Drive crossing 

 to the Mall, you pass a handsome cluster of Turkey 

 oaks. These are on the left of the Walk, between the 

 Walk and the Drive. Up on the rocks at your right, 

 on the extreme southerly end, is a chestnut oak with 

 wavy-lobed leaves. Just beyond the lamp-post here, 



