V. 



EAST SEVENTY-SECOND STREET TO EAST SEVENTY- 

 NINTH STREET 



Enter, for this ramble, at East Seventy - second 

 Street, and turn off to the right at the first fork of 

 the Walk. The path here splits right and left. Close 

 by the second series of steps on the left branch of 

 Walk (the westerly) you will find the interesting 

 rosemary-leaved willow. It is a pretty shrub with very 

 narrow linear leaves, which have their margins slightly 

 turned or rolled over in a way that botanists term 

 revolute. The leaf edges are entire (not cut) and the 

 leaves are cottony-white on the undersides. On the 

 uppersides they are of a dull, dark green. They are 

 set close in to the leaf stem, that is, are nearly sessile. 

 Delicacy is the word to express the effect of this shrub, 

 and its fine leaves certainly make it a thing of exquisite 

 beauty. 



If you follow the branch of Walk that splits off 

 to the east, you will find just off to the east of the little 

 cut-leaved beech (easily known by its cut leaves) two 

 small English oaks. These are especially interesting, 

 as they came from Sachsenwald, the estate of the late 

 Prince Bismarck. Off to the east of these are two 

 low bushes; the northerly is a small sapling of the 

 laurel-leaved willow, with glossy, shining leaves; the 

 southerly of the two is another rosemary-leaved willow. 



