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right, is a splendid mass of the handsome Rhodotypos 

 with its glossy, deep purple berries in September, and 

 on your left, is Thunberg's barberry, with its rich 

 brilliant crimson berries, gemming its dainty stems at 

 the same time of year. Take now the walk that breaks 

 off to the east from the Esplanade, to the Boat House. 

 Just beyond the Rhodotypos you will find beach plum. 

 This, in April or May covers its bare branches with 

 white clusters of flowers in side umbels. After it 

 flowers, the leaves appear, downy, pale green on the 

 tindersides, but shining on the uppersides. They are 

 set alternately, are ovate, about three inches long, and 

 sharply serrate. The fruit is a round purple berry 

 powdered over with a bloom, and is ripe in September. 

 As you proceed toward the Boat House you pass, on 

 your right, near the Walk, cucumber tree of the mag- 

 nolia family, with thin leaves from five to ten inches 

 long which are generally pointed at both ends. Off to 

 the southeast of this tree, well out upon the lawn, is a 

 good-sized evergreen with noticeably vase-like form of 

 growth to its branches. For some reason it is not 

 doing over well, but it is a fair specimen of the Mount 

 Atlas Cedar. Its leaves are crowded together in rosette- 

 like clusters along the branches, and the leaves them- 

 selves are about an inch long, round, stififish and sharp 

 pointed. They are of a glaucous-green hue which 

 gives a beautiful silvery effect to the otherwise dark- 

 green foliage. Indeed this tree is considered by bot- 

 anists but a silvery variety of the Cedar of Lebanon, 

 a good specimen of which will be found on Section 

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