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lifts over its dark-green, shining, oval leaves its con- 

 spicuous panicles of bloom. These panicles are very 

 showy, and, with their several tiers, make you think of 

 a candelabrum. They are, in this respect, different from 

 any other viburnum's flowers in the Park. These hand- 

 some blossoms are individually a combination of the 

 wheel-shaped (rotate) and bell-shaped (campanulate) 

 types of flowers. They change, later, to pinkish, oblong 

 berries which, as they ripen, become blue-black. The 

 shrub's leaves are very handsome, large and richly 

 dark green. About west of this viburnum, close by 

 the Walk, is long-stemmed English elm, and across the 

 Walk from this tree, to the southwest, up the rise of 

 the slope here, is cut-leaved European beech. Con- 

 tinuing along the Walk, northerly, near the place 

 where it goes under the Drive, through an Arch, it 

 branches off to the northeast (your right) past some 

 European beeches and red maples, to the Seventy-ninth 

 Street Gate. Near this Gate you pass, just beyond the 

 lamp-post on your left, common horsechestnut, on your 

 right catalpa, buckthorn and sycamore maple. The 

 buckthorn has leave's that remind you of the dogwood. 

 If you had not branched off to the right from the 

 Arch, but had gone through it, northerly, you would 

 have passed, on your right, sycamore maple (about 

 opposite a red maple), then close together, one after 

 the other, on your right, buckthorn, wild red osier (with 

 crimson branches streaked with crinkly lines in winter), 

 American hornbeam, with birch-like leaves, muscular, 

 ridgy bark veined beautifully by silver streaks, and 

 then buckthorn again. Diagonally across the Walk 



