XIV. 

 WEST NINETY-SIXTH STREET TO THE POOL 



In this Section you will find Crimean lindens, almost 

 as soon as you enter at the West Ninety-sixth Street 

 Gate, handsome Soulard's crab-apples, over near Trans- 

 verse Road No. 4, native cork elm, on the westerly side 

 of the North Meadow, the obtuse-leaved Japan arbor 

 vitse, a sorrel tree near the hydrant, not far from the 

 Gate by which you entered and others equally interest- 

 ing. Let us consider them in detail. 



Andromeda floribunda. {Lily of the Valley Tree. 

 No. 22.) This fine mass, which is intermingled with 

 Azalea amcena, is well worth seeing in early spring, es- 

 pecially when in bloom. The azalea is then a mass of 

 clear, cool magenta, and the andromeda fairly bursting 

 with its dense clusters of small drooping, waxy, frost- 

 white, urn-shaped flowers in erect panicles at the ends 

 of the branches. The azalea has very small ovate leaves, 

 scarcely half an inch long. The andromeda's leaves are 

 about two or three inches long. They both bloom early 

 in spring, late March or early April. Be on hand to see 

 them. You will find this mass on the west of the Walk 

 that runs parallel with the Drive and opens out close 

 beside it, where the Drive passes over Transverse Road 

 No. 4. The mass is off the Walk, a little at your left 

 (west), if you walk northerly, and not far from the 

 fork that swings out its left branch to the Drive, as the 

 latter pass over the Transverse Road. 



