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just beyond the Bridge, a couple of American horn- 

 beams, with some white mulberries, on the point that 

 juts out into the water, to the west of them. Then you 

 pass white pine, and, beyond, but on your right this 

 time, spicebush. Where this Walk meets the Drive 

 beyond, you will find some good specimens of the 

 pretty Mahaleb cherry, of southern Europe. One of 

 these stands on the southerly end of the little "island" 

 of shrubbery that lies in the "mouth" of the Walk here, 

 opposite the West Ramble Road Stop. In the point of 

 the border bed, on the left of the Drive, just beyond, you 

 will find Chinese juniper, with short, sharp, stiffish 

 leaves that prick like thistles if pressed by the fingers. 

 West of this is plume-leaved Japan arbor vitas (Retin- 

 ospora), and along the border (southerly) of the Bridle 

 Path, you will find kerria, and a little west of it, on the 

 southerly border, a clump of the dainty Fortune's dwarf 

 white spiraea, which sets its small, exquisitely-cut, tiny 

 little white flowers in early days of spring — almost the 

 first of the spiraeas to bloom. 



