333 



in one of the little bundles (fascicles), you will see 

 that they are in threes. 



You have met this pine in the Rambje, and the de- 

 scription there given will serve for these trees. I 

 simply wish, here, to call your attention to these fine 

 specimens — the best in the Park of this variety of pine. 

 They are handsome fellows truly, and it will be some 

 time before the sapling in the Ramble reaches their 

 proportions. See these trees by all means. 



Pyrus aucuparia. (European Mountain Ash. Rowan 

 Tree. No. 75.) Near the Loch, at the extreme south- 

 westerly corner of this section, you will find a fair 

 sized specimen of this beautiful foreign comrade of 

 our native mountain ash. You will meet it, well up on 

 the greensward at the left of the Walk as you come 

 from the Arch (over which runs the Drive) along the 

 path that wanders from the wooded shores of the Har- 

 lem Meer. After passing beneath the Arch, follow the 

 path southwards, through a short rock-walk, out upon 

 the open, with the silent and dreaming waters of the 

 Loch upon your right, and a broad, gentle rise of green 

 on your left, where it slopes up easily to the hilly heights 

 of McGowan's. The mountain ash stands on this 

 greensward about twenty feet off to your left, as you 

 follow the path southerly. You may fix its position 

 easily if you look for it about opposite the lower flange 

 of the Walk which runs down close to the Loch. It is a 

 small sized tree, about twenty feet high, with a bark 

 on the upper branches especially, which makes you 

 think of the peach or the cherry tree — a kind of sheen- 

 like gloss, like the burnish of polished metal, yet not 



