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Cedar of Lebanon. This beautiful tree spreads out 

 its darkly foliaged boughs, just east of a good-sized 

 white ash, with a low dense mass of the elegantissima 

 variety of the English yew, to the north of it, and a 

 pretty, lusty young fire-thorn south of it. 



If you should follow the Walk from the south of 

 the Bolivar Concourse, at the place where it bends 

 around quite quickly in a curve to the east, you will 

 pass a cluster of European larches on your left, with 

 an Oriental spruce on your right. The larches have 

 black persistent cones clinging amid their branches, 

 and rosette-like clusters of leaves. These leaves are 

 about an inch long, are soft, flat and linear, and of a 

 light tender green, very beautiful in spring. The 

 spruce has stout, thick, obtuse, four-sided leaves which 

 are scarcely a quarter of an inch long. So you can 

 make no mistake about these trees. 



At the next fork of the Walk, turn to your right, 

 and go southerly to the next branch, which is at the 

 Drive Crossing, not far from the Eighty-first Street 

 Gate, where we entered for this ramble. At the Drive 

 Crossing, in either corner of the Walk there, you will 

 find large masses of the pretty Fontanesia, easily rec- 

 ognized by its willow-like leaves. The Fontanesia be- 

 longs to the Oleacece family and as has been said before, 

 gets its name from Desfontaines, a French botanist, 

 born 1752 and died 1833. The shrub has opposite, 

 narrow, willow-like leaves, which are entire. It is a 

 Chinese importation and, in the Park here, is certainly 

 thriving. It blooms in May or June in short panicles 

 at the ends of the branches. The panicles are made up 



