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RHODODENDRONS 



native rhododendrons, azaleas and rhodoras 

 were planted. Leucothce, Andromeda were 

 brought from North Carolina, and yellow root, 

 yew and wild flowers, such as wake-robin, blood- 

 root, snakeroot, violets, anemones, hepatieas 

 and hundreds of ferns were spread under the 

 great oaks, beeches and tulip trees, until now 

 these plants, and others like dog's-tooth violets, 

 spring beauty, jewelweed and wood asters 

 which came back with protection alone, make a 



trip to the Park well worth the while. Farther 

 south, along this same walk, is a magnificent 

 mass of mountain laurel covering the whole east 

 and north side of the hill occupied by the Rock- 

 ing Stone Restaurant. Of these glorious plants, 

 only a dozen or so broken and stunted speci- 

 mens were found when the Park was taken over 

 by the New York Zoological Society; though an 

 abundance of stumps showed clearly that it had 

 been a permanent feature in the forest before 



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MOUNTAIN LURFJ. NEAR TIIF. POLAR RKAR DEN 



