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when they are ripe. South of this shrub, over on the 

 other side of the Walk (your left) you will find Catalpa 

 bignonioides, and diagonally across from this catalpa, 

 south, on the right of the Walk, you will find purple- 

 leaved European hazel, which will be readily recognized 

 by its dark-purple leaves. South of the hazel, in the 

 same border bed of the Walk, you will pass cockspur 

 thorn, bristling with thorns and glossy with its shining 

 leaves. This thorn is not far from a lamp which stands 

 a little south of it, where the border bed on your right 

 narrows to a thin strip. 



Let us now come back to where we branched off, by 

 the grounsel tree and the cottonwoods, beyond the 

 steps, at the beginning of this ramble, and follow the 

 Walk northerly, as it runs about parallel with the Drive. 

 You pass silver maple, opposite the lamp on your right, 

 and, just beyond the maple, scarlet oak. Not very much 

 further along this Walk you come to a nestling sheet 

 of water. At its southerly end you will find bald 

 cypress, and back of the bald cypress European white 

 birch. Continuing along the Walk, note the gathering 

 of American hornbeams bordering the bed on your 

 right. You know them at once by their smooth, clean- 

 cut, muscle-ridged bark, streaked with silvery lines, 

 like veins, and by their beautiful birch-like leaves. 



On either side of the cross-walk here, as it breaks 

 off to cross the Drive, you will see a fringe tree. They 

 have simple, entire leaves, oval or obovate and placed 

 opposite each other on the branches. See these trees in 

 June, when they hang full of their snow-white, fringe- 

 like flowers. Beyond the northerly fringe tree is a mass 



