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the west of the Walk has its leaves cut into lobes 

 that remind you of the white oak, while those on the 

 tree on the east of the Walk are wavy-lobed and 

 recall the look of the chestnut oak. Note also the 

 very pubescent undersides of the leaves of both of 

 these trees. They are downy with tomentum (dense, 

 close-matted pubescence). The acorns are oblong 

 egg-shape, and set in shallow cups which are often 

 densely fringed about the margins with ragged, mossy 

 scales — much like the acorn of the bur oak. 



Beyond the swamp white oaks, on the right (east) 

 of the Walk, as you continue northerly, is Irish yew, 

 a small pyramidal growth, with leaves the same as 

 those of the English yew, but gathered together in 

 rather rosette-like clusters. Beyond this is Austrian 

 pine, with its dark-green, stiffish leaves in bundles of 

 two, and north of the Austrian, a handsome Swiss 

 stone pine, with its leaves in bundles of five. Note 

 that these leaves of the Swiss pine are three-sided and 

 glaucous. At the steps here, off to your left (west), 

 is a pretty Cornelian cherry, with opposite leaves, 

 rather roundish oval and distinctly short-pointed. 



Tilia dasystyla. {Crimean Linden. No. 2.) As 

 you enter the Park' at the West Ninety-sixth Street 

 Gate, on either side of the Drive, in the very points 

 of the beds between Walk and Drive, almost as you 

 go in, you will see these two slender young trees. 

 They are but sapplings, now, but will grow into hand- 

 some trees, if they develop to their full capacity. 

 Their leaves are dark glossy-green on the uppersides, 

 but, beneath, are pale-green, and if you look closely, 



