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grass you will find Chinese cork tree with long ailan- 

 thus-like leaves and another one south of this, about 

 in line with the southerly end of the Lily Pond. If you 

 find this cork tree, near it, to the southwest, is sour- 

 wood, with leaves like those of the peach tree and long 

 fingers of white bloom in the summer. To the south- 

 west of the sourwood are several handsome specimens 

 of the panicled hydrangea. 



At the extreme northerly end of the Lily Pond, you 

 will find golden willow, in summer a drifting cloud of 

 silvery gray-green, in winter a lovely mist of brassy- 

 yellow twigs and branches. A little off to the east of the 

 golden willow, low down, about two feet high, the 

 handsome Californian rose mallow blows out its beau- 

 tiful, large white flowers, with pink centers, to the 

 blaze of an August sun. How lovely and cool they 

 look, nestling here by the sleepy Pond! East of the 

 mallow, almost in line with each other, north and south, 

 are Siberian red osier, rhodotypos, pin oak and willow 

 oak. All of these you have met before, except the 

 willow oak. This is easy to identify, for its leaves are 

 indeed very much like those of a willow — linear-lance- 

 olate, of a smooth, clear green, and narrowed at base 

 and tip. They are entire or almost entire. You cannot 

 mistake the tree, for at first glance you are sure to see 

 its willow-like look. There is another of these oaks 

 about due north of this one, and northeast of the 

 second, near the Fifth Avenue Wall, you will find the 

 handsome Siebold's viburnum, grown to the height of a 

 small tree. This handsome shrub is a Japan product and 

 is certainly a worthy importation. In May or June it 



