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upon the Walk that runs east and west, turn westerly, 

 to your left, to the first fork of the Walk. Take the 

 left-hand branch of this fork, and you will find two 

 very fair specimens of this blueberry. The first one 

 stands on the right of the Walk, just beyond a hand- 

 some Viburnum dentatum. The viburnum has saw- 

 cut leaves. The high-bush blueberry is, as its name 

 implies, an erect shrub. It is very pretty in May, with 

 hanging clusters of wax-white flowers flushed softly 

 with pink. These corymb-like clusters, in short, hang- 

 ing racemes, have given the shrub its specific botanical 

 name corymbosum. Dainty pale pinkish-white bells 

 they are, with their little five-toothed corollas droop- 

 ing so beautifully on the almost bare branches of the 

 shrub. The leaves are simple, set alternately on the 

 branches, are oval, and pointed at both ends, the top 

 acute, the base wedge-shaped. These leaves, about 

 three inches long when full-grown, are of a dark 

 glossy green on the uppersides, but are lighter green 

 below and pubescent. In the fall of the year they 

 meet the first keen kisses of the frost with flushes of 

 rose that glow into scarlet and crimson through golden 

 glories of yellow and orange. All over the Ramble 

 then you come upon the torches of flame which this 

 shrub burns so bravely. Its berry is small, about as 

 large as a good-sized pea, blue-black with a faint 

 bloom. 



Viburnum acerifolium. (Maple-leaved Arrowmood. 

 Dockmackie. No. 107.) Proceed northerly from the 

 mushroom-shaped shelter, turn to the west at the first 

 fork of the Walk, then follow it to the next fork, turn 



