XL 



EAST NINETIETH STREET AND VICINITY. 



There is nothing in this Section which you have not 

 met before, if you have followed the rambles in the 

 earlier part of this book, but there are some things 

 here worthy of your notice as you pass along the 

 Walks. 



As you enter at the East Ninetieth Street Gate, and 

 take the Walk, at your right, which runs northerly 

 beside the Drive, you will pass beneath a splendid 

 colonade of sycamore maples. Almost the whole 

 stretch of the Walk, up to where it bends away to 

 the west, is lined with these maples, and they are in 

 fine condition. Note the thick, five-lobed leaves, with 

 their reddish (usually, though not always) leaf -stems 

 (petioles). 



Directly in front (west) of the Ninetieth Street 

 Gate, there is a bed between Drive and Bridle Path. 

 On the southerly end of this bed you will find sycamore 

 maple and common barberry; at its northerly end 

 sycamore maple again. Down at the extreme south 

 of this area (see the map), on the westerly border of 

 the Drive, nearly opposite Eighty-seventh Street, you 

 will see a pretty clump of the day lily {Hemerocallis 

 fulva), which blooms in late July or early August 

 with orange-hued flowers. You can readily recognize 

 it by its leaves which, bending and lance-like, make 

 you think of thick sedge grass. There is another 

 clump of this down on Section No. 9, near the border 

 of the Drive. 



