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You can pick them out by their rather glossy, reddish- 

 brown, typical cherry-tree bark and hairy (undersides) 

 ovate-lanceolate leaves, ending in a point, often ab- 

 ruptly. These leaves are thickish, very coarsely and 

 doubly serrated. The tree's flowers occur about the 

 time the leaves begin to appear, in close umbels, from 

 side spurs along the branches. The fruit is a sweet 

 (occasionally sour) drupe, yellow or red, rather heart- 

 shaped, pointed. 



Pseudotsuga Douglasii. (Douglas Spruce. No. lo.) 

 ^7'As you approach the little mushroom-shaped shelter 

 in the southwesterly part of the Ramble, just north 

 of the' lamp-post that stands by the right of the Walk, 

 as you come towards the shelter, you will see a small- 

 sized evergreen. It is now about five feet high. This 

 is the Douglas Spruce. Its form o-f growth is pyr- 

 amidal, with a horizontal spread of branches. The 

 leaves are linear, either straight or curved, and quite 

 flexible. They are of a dark or bluish-green color, 

 whitish below, obtuse, and are more or less two-ranked 

 along the branches. The cones are three or four 

 inches long, drooping, and egg-shaped in form. These 

 cones are bristly with exserted bracts. You will find 

 another specimen of the tree on Section lO, close by 

 the Reservoir's wall. 



Quercus coccinea, var. tinctoria. (Black Oak. No. 

 i6.) The branch of path leading off to the west of 

 Schiller's bust will lead you by a specimen of this oak. 

 You will find it on the left (west) of the Walk as 

 you bend northerly, and you can identify it by its 

 rough blackish bark. The rough trunk is broken with 



