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the Lake, then at the first fork of the path, turn to your 

 left, nearly northeast, and follow the path up to a sharp 

 elbow that crooks the Walk abruptly to the east again. 

 Here at your right hand is the little dream-spot, and if 

 you stand in it and face south you will look right into 

 a cluster of Cryptomeria Japonica. They stand across 

 the streamlet, up the bank. You will know them at once 

 by their tall, spire-like forms, dark green foliage, with 

 parts of it reddish brown, and trunks of the same hue. 

 The trunks look like posts stripped of their bark. The 

 specimens here are not doing very well, for some rea- 

 son, but up by the Reservoir (on Section No. lo of this 

 book) you will find some superb specimens flourishing 

 in the best of health. 



The foliage of the Cryptomeria Japonica is very 

 easily distinguished. Its leaves have a marked, claw- 

 like look, are rather four-sided, curved, and taper grad- 

 ually down, from a thick base to a sharp-pointed tip. 

 They seem to be trying to clasp the branch. This gives 

 each branch a rather hard, close look. If you examine 

 the tree carefully, you may find its small, globular 

 cones, not quite an inch in diameter, clinging at the ends 

 of the branches. These cones have a deep-seated affec- 

 tion for the branch and hang on very persistently. They 

 are odd-looking things, certainly, and, if you examine 

 them closely, you will see that their scales are set with 

 slender, recurved prickles. 



In form the tree is lofty and spire-like, and its foli- 

 age, in the full perfection of good health, is dark green 

 and lustrous, full of a seeming enduring strength. As 



