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race, beginning at the Esplanade, northwesterly corner, 

 by the Walk that leads to Bow Bridge. Two lovely 

 little English hawthorns with dainty pink single flowers 

 burst out into bloom here, in May days, and near 

 them you will find alternate-leaved dogwood. Some 

 cockspur-thorns lean out to you in the point between 

 the Walks here. You know them by their thorns and 

 wedge-shaped leaves. Back of the southerly cockspur, 

 hidden away in the masses of shrubbery here, is a 

 lusty specimen of Elceagnus longipes. It has reddish- 

 brown branches, ovate leaves. Its flowers are yel- 

 lowish-white from the axils of the leaves, and the 

 fruits are bright scarlet berries on long stems. The 

 berries, when young, are covered with brown scales, 

 and are ripe in June or July. The shrub is an im- 

 portation from China and Japan. You will not see 

 this unless you push aside the bushes here and look 

 in behind them, for it is pretty well hidden behind 

 the Thunberg's barberry. You will know it by its 

 leaves, which are very silvery on the undersides. The 

 barberry here is a splendid mass, and a handsome 

 display in September when its bright coral berries 

 sparkle all through its fine leaves with the gem- 

 like beauty of jewels. At the extreme end of the 

 mass of the Thunberg is Siebold's barberry from 

 Manchuria and the north of China, with more droop- 

 ing racemes of flowers and oblong berries. Con- 

 tinuing along the Walk, diagonally across on your 

 left, are three shrubs, close together. The first is 

 Persian lilac, with purple flowers ; the second, high 

 bush cranberry with flat broat cymes of white flowers 



