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in May, and brilliant, translucent red berries in Sep- 

 tember; the third, common snowball or Guelder Rose. 

 Close by the steps, beyond, is garden hydrangea, 

 with large glossy oval leaves of light green, and large 

 heads of flowers in June. The hydrangea gets its 

 name from two Greek words meaning water, vase, and 

 these refer to the shape of its fruit-pod. Beside the 

 hydrangea you will see two clumps of the pretty 

 holly-leaved barberry. You recognize it at once by 

 its spiny leaves. It gets its botanical name from 

 Bernard McMahon. In early spring its flowers ap- 

 pear in close, erect clusters of yellow racemes, and 

 these are succeeded by blue-black berries which are 

 covered with a glaucous bloom (powder). Surely, 

 the holly-like leaves are very beautiful. Let us as- 

 cend the little run of steps here and follow the wall 

 around the westerly arm of the Terrace. This wall, 

 like its easterly companion, has five "posts" which 

 will serve us very nicely in locating our botanical pets 

 here. By the first post is Retinospora plumosa, whose 

 fine feathery leaves you have learned to know, on sight, 

 now, and south of it, about midway between the first 

 and second post, is Magnolia Soulangeana, with hand- 

 some cream-white flowers, softly flushed with pinkish 

 purple on the outside, deepening at the base of the 

 corolla. By the second post is English yew. Then 

 a mass of hybrid rhododendrons flank off to south- 

 east of this. These rhododendrons are mostly of the 

 rosy-lilac variety, Everestiannm. But the whole bed 

 here, all along the front of the wall, (and on the east 

 side of the Terrace as well) is planted with 



