XIII. 



EAST NINETY-SIXTH STREET TO EAST ONE HUNDRED 

 AND SECOND STREET 



As has been said before, if you have followed these 

 rambles, in the order of the book, you will readily 

 recognize most of the trees and shrubs of this Section 

 on sight. But there are some of them over which 

 you may well linger, and to these few your attention 

 is hereby called, in the spirit that Walton would have 

 invited you to a day's angling — be in no hurry, ob- 

 serve quietly, and learn and love, for they are dear 

 fellows — all of them. Learn to know them as friends. 



Acer saccharinum, var. nigrum. {Black Sugar 

 Maple. No. 52.) This interesting variety of the sugar 

 maple will be found along the Walk that branches off to 

 the west from the Drive, just as the Drive passes over 

 Transverse Road No. 4. This Walk skirts the east- 

 erly side of North Meadow, and runs about parallel 

 with East Drive. Follow this Walk along until you 

 come to a large mass of rock on the right (east) of 

 the Walk. This mass is about opposite East One 

 Hundredth Street, were it extended into the Park. 

 It is the second rock mass you meet, going northerly 

 on this Walk, and the black maple is just beyond it, 

 on the left of the Walk (west). This tree makes a 

 triangle with two swamp white oaks, back (west) of 

 it ; the black maple is in the point of the triangle, and 

 the two swamp white oaks make its opposite side. 



