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out — a tender crimson-purple. The leaves are like 

 those of the English elm, but longer, and with finer 

 serrations. The flowers are equally beautiful— little 

 clover-like bunches set along the branches, rose-purple 

 filaments and dark, blue-purple anthers. 



This interesting tree, is, as has been said, easily 

 found by following the Walk westerly from the One 

 Hundred and Sixth Street Gate. Perhaps it will be 

 of interest to note, in approaching it, the ash-leaved 

 maple or box elder which is on the right of the Walk, 

 just beyond the lamp which guards to the second Walk 

 leading into the Green Houses. This is a beautiful 

 tree in spring, when it is hung as with lace, by its 

 fine, graceful, drooping flowers. They are lace itself 

 and the whole tree is a miracle of grace and beauty. 

 You can tell the tree easily by its leaves which are com- 

 pound and are made up of three to five oval or ovate 

 leaflets. These leaves somewhat resemble the look of 

 the leaves of the white-ash, whence its name. But the 

 resemblance is indeed very slight. 



As you go westerly, you pass two pretty silverbell 

 trees, then hornbeam, then striped maple, white mul- 

 berry and then you come to the purple-leaved English 

 elm. These are all on the left of the Walk. 



The silverbell has a very distinctive bark which is 

 one of its winter features. Whenever you come upon 

 it at that season of the year, when it stands out full 

 and clear in the bright sunshine, stripped of its foli- 

 age, its bark will surely appeal to you. Fine thread- 

 like lines, really fissures, crinkle through its dark 

 brown and show faint tinges of reddish brown in these 



