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the Walk. Here, set on the Walk is an "island" of 

 green things, with a mass of ninebark at one end 

 (northerly), and at the other (southerly), Japan shad- 

 bush and Japan snowball. These you have met with 

 before, and we need not linger over them. Beyond, 

 the Walk opens out into a broad space, close to the 

 Drive. The beds, between Walk and Drive, end here 

 in two tongues. In the northerly tongue is Reeve's 

 spiraea with lanceolate leaves, and in the end of the 

 southerly tongue is a handsome mass of box, with its 

 beautiful dark green leaves. South of this is a rugged 

 old Austrian pine with a couple of Scotch pines to the 

 south of it, nearer the Walk. The Scotch pines ha'^e 

 short, twisted leaves, the Austrian, long stiffish ones. 



If you continue on this Walk, southerly, not very 

 much further beyond the Scotch pines, is white pine. 

 These are all on the left (east) of the Walk. About 

 the distance of the white pine from the mass of box, 

 just passed, as you go southerly along the Walk, you 

 will come, on your left, to a tall, thin looking ever- 

 green which seems to be just about holding its own. 

 It looks something like the Austrian pine, but is of 

 a finer expression — softer by far. It rises rather 

 conically, and its sprays are open, light and airy, very 

 different from the heavy dense masses of the Austrian's 

 foliage. It is Pinus mitis, and its leaves are about 

 five inches long, slender and green. They are gathered 

 three or two (usually two) together in a fascicle. 

 The cone of the tree is about the size of the Austrian 

 cone (three inches), and looks something like it. It 

 has small weak prickles. 



