IX. 



EAST SEVENTY-NINTH STREET TO EAST EIGHTY- 

 FIFTH STREET 



In this Section you will find, in their various places, 

 described individually at length below, excellent speci- 

 mens of the Japan storax, the lovely Bumald's spirsea, 

 which throws up its crimson heads in midsummer, red- 

 flowering horsechestnuts, masses of the Japan rose, 

 golden-leaved syringa, Japan maple with pretty star- 

 shaped leaves, handsome beeches and sturdy English 

 oaks. But let us take them up individually : — 



.ffisculus hippocastaneum X Pavia, or ^sculus rubi- 

 cunda. {Red-flowering Horsechestnut. No. 43.) If 

 you enter the Park at the Gate, a little south of 

 Transverse Road, No. 3, at East Eighty-fifth Street, 

 and follow the Walk eastward to the Drive, then turn 

 southerly along the Drive and cross it at the second 

 cross-walk of the path, you will find, in each cornet* 

 of the Walk, where it meets the Walk that trends by 

 the Reservoir, some rather slender specimens of this 

 beautiful hybrid between the common horsechestnut and 

 the red buckeye (Pavia). If you look at the leaves, 

 you will see that they look something like the leaves 

 of the common horsechestnut. But they are only in a 

 way similar, as you will see if you look closely at the 

 pointed ends of the leaflets. You see these leaflets are 

 all wedge-obovate and come down gradually to a point. 



