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described is over one foot in diameter, forty feet high, and one 

 of the largest in the vicinity. The veins or lines in the leaf 

 grow straight from the stem, and are not interlined like other 

 leaves. 



Near the playground, to the left of the main East Drive, are 

 some fine specimens of the magnolia acuminatata, or cucumber 

 tree ; and magnolia tripetela, or umbrella magnolia. 



Castanea vesca, or Spanish Chestnut. — The only one of this 

 kind in the park is growing on the East Drive, near Battle 

 Pass, and is noticeable in the Spring for its long, pendulous, 

 light-green catkins. This tree is nearly two feet in diameter 

 and thirty-live feet high. 



On the bridle road leading from Nethermead arches to the 

 farm house are some fine types of liriodendron tulipifera, or 

 tulip tree. They are stately and interesting specimens, with 

 straight stems of considerable height, and although a native 

 tree are not very familiar to ordinary observers. Some of 

 them are over four feet in diameter. These trees are covered 

 in the earlj* summer with beautiful blue flowers. 



Opposite .Music Island, near the pedestrian concourse, there 

 is a fine grove of platanus occidentalis, the plane or button 

 ball tree, of twenty years' growth, which furnish a pleasant 

 shade in summer. 



All the varieties of the cornus Florida, or American dog- 

 wood, which produces a large white flower, Fagus ferruginea, 

 or American beech ; and the fraxinus, or American ash, suc- 

 ceed well on the park. Ail the European species of ash are 

 subject to the borer, such as the fraxinus excelsa aurea, or 

 golden barked ash; fraxinus excelsa punctura, or blotch leaf 

 ash; fraxinus salixfolia, or willow-leaved ash; the ornus 

 fraxemifolia, or flowering ash, is a sweet morsel for the borer, 

 which they bore from root to branch. A number of these trees 

 may be found on South Lake drive. 



In the neighborhood of battle pass, the Inglans nigra, or 

 black walnut tree, is the onlj T one left of a former group) which 

 occupied the high ground near valley grove road. Close by 

 is the salix bablonica, which is also the only one remaining 

 of a former group of weeping willows. 



