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the left, is the tamarix family, represented by several species 

 of tamarix, Old World plants. Next comes the mezereon 

 family, having as a representative the leather-wood or moose- 

 wood (Dirca), of the eastern parts of North America; the 

 name leather-wood refers to the very tough inner bark; the 

 bark is a violent emetic. 



Some distance from the path and opposite the Woodlawn 

 Road entrance, is the oleaster family, including several species 

 of oleaster, the buffalo berry and the sea-buckthorn, a native 

 of Europe, the berries of which are acrid and poisonous; the 

 berries of several of the species of oleaster are edible; the 

 buffalo berry, of northwestern North America, is largely 

 eaten by the Indians of that region; the berries of the ori- 

 ental oleaster, known as Trebizond dates, are made into 

 cakes by the Arabs, after having been dried. Plants of the 

 ginseng family form a group opposite the same entrance, 

 some of these being quite tropical in aspect; the Japanese 

 angelica-tree, from Japan, is one of these, and another is 

 Maximowicz's acanthopanax, also from Japan; the varie- 

 gated Chinese angelica-tree, a native of China, is quite orna- 

 mental. Beyond this group, and on both sides of the trans- 

 verse path, is the dogwood family, shown by many species of 

 dogwood or cornel (Cornus) , from both the Old World and 

 the New; the red-osier dogwood, the kinnikinnik and the 

 panicled dogwood are American representatives; the officinal 

 dogwood comes from Japan and is known there as sandzaki; 

 the dogberry, gater-tree, or hound's-tree, is from Europe and 

 western Asia; its wood is hard and is sometimes made into 

 butchers' skewers and tooth-picks ; in France, an oil used for 

 burning and in soap-making is extracted from the black 

 berries. 



Across the path from the dogwoods, at the foot of the 

 steps, may be found the white-alder family. Here are the 

 Japanese sweet-pepper bush and the North American sweet- 

 pepper bushes or white-alders, their fragrant white flowers 

 appearing in August. The heath family is next, represented 

 by many forms of azeleas and rhododendrons; the Japanese 



