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lies between the Walk and the Drive, a lusty young 

 cockspur thorn, with long sharp thorns and shining, 

 thick, glossy, wedge-obovate leaves. Beyond the cock- 

 spur thorn, also between Walk and Drive, on your 

 right, as you go toward the Carriage Concourse, is, 

 a good young scarlet-fruited hawthorn or white thorn, 

 as it is often called, with light green, tender, dully- 

 finished leaves, which are rather regularly cut along 

 the margins, into very small lobes. In shape these 

 leaves are broad-ovate. You can find the tree easily 

 by its leaves and thorns. It stands just this side 

 (south) of an osage orange. The osage orange has 

 reddish - brown, rough bark, and rather sweeping 

 branches, beset with spines in the axils of its leaves. 

 Both trees are near the end of the bed bordering the 

 right of the Walk, and almost in line with the tongue 

 of ground between the two Drives, as they join each 

 other to form the Carriage Concourse, about the foun- 

 tain used for watering horses. Speaking of this tongue 

 of ground, on its north-westerly corner there is a fine 

 display of the wild red osier, and, on its north-easterly 

 corner, a large mass of tfie small-leaved syringa. 



Let us now follow right around this Concourse. Just 

 after passing the scarlet-fruited thorn and the osage 

 orange, the Walk sends off a little side-shoot, to the 

 left, down the bank, west, to a cosy little Summer 

 House by the Lake. Just as it turns off, you will 

 find a very interesting syringa. It is interesting be- 

 cause, as a rule, the stamens in the centre of the 

 white-petaled blossoms of syringa are golden yellow, 

 these are creamy white and mark the shrub as one of 



