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five inches, and, when young, are of a rich reddish- 

 brown hue which, as the cone ripens, dulls to brown. 

 The tree is pyramidal in habit of growth, and the gen- 

 eral effect of its foliage is dark, bluish-green overcast 

 with a glaucous hue. 



Cercidiphyllum Japonicum. (Katsura Tree. No. 45.) 

 Two exceedingly handsome specimens of this interest- 

 ing Japan tree are in the close vicinity of McGowan's 

 i-estaurant. They are back of the Walk, and half 

 hidden by masses of other things. To see them you 

 must look for them, for they are pretty well hidden 

 from the casual observer. Take the Walk that crosses 

 the Drive south of McGowan's Pass Tavern, where 

 two black walnuts — handsome trees — guard its either 

 side. Follow it easterly to where it forks by a large 

 stone urn; take the southerly branch (your right), 

 and continue until you come about half way between 

 the second and the third fork of the Walk. If you 

 have a permit to go upon the lawns, you will find 

 the two handsome Katsura trees just below the rise 

 of ground at the west of the Walk. At first, from 

 their leaves, you might think them some kind of 

 Judas tree (redbud), for the leaves so closely re- 

 semble the leaves of that tree, that they have been 

 named Cercidiphyllum, from two Greek words, Kerkis 

 (Cercis), the name of the Judas tree, and phyllon, 

 leaf. Indeed, the leaves are exceedingly like those 

 of the Judas tree — only smaller. They are broadly- 

 cordate (heart-shaped), generally opposite on the 

 branch, though sometimes alternate, and distinctly 

 nerved (veined) with five to seven ribs. Though ap- 



