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Follow the path still southerly, and quite a little 

 distance further along, where the path bends to the 

 Drive, you pass close by the Walk, with leaves in hang- 

 ing tassels that remind you of the tassels of Russian 

 sleighs, a handsome Bhotan pine. This is a well- 

 grown tree, and spreads its boughs out in a broad and 

 splendid shade. It is a noble tree. Note that its 

 leaves are five in a bundle, and long. Beyond, another 

 Austrian pine overshadows the Walk, and near the 

 place where the Walk comes in close to the Drive, 

 you pass several very fine specimens of the Turkey 

 oak. Cross the Drive, just beyond these, and take 

 the Walk that leads to the Bridge over the Bridle 

 Path. Just beyond the Drive, on the left of the Walk, 

 as you go easterly, is common quince. Note its leaves 

 and compare them with those of the Japan quince. If 

 you follow the Path to the Bridge, down by the Bridle 

 Path, close by the southerly border, are some good 

 examples of Cratagus macracantha, with strong thorns 

 and oval glossy leaves. At the east of the Bridge, 

 down by the border of the Bridle Path, you will find 

 a clump of English hawthorns. 



The English hawthorns are clustered close together, 

 just east of the Bridge which spans the Bridle Path. 

 A little off to west of this Bridge, close down by 

 the very border of the Bridle Path itself, you will find 

 a very handsome cockspur thorn with dark-green, 

 glossy, shining, thick and leathery (coriaceous) leaves 

 which make you think of miniature tennis racquets. 

 This tree fairly bristles with thorns. It stands diag- 

 onally across from the handsome large-thorned haw- 



