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and Ulmus Aruericanus, or American elm ; Betula alba, or white 

 birch ; Betula alba laciniata, or cut leaved white birch ; Picea 

 grandis, or grand silver fir ; Pinus cembra, or stone pine. 



In the vicinity of the play-ground, a short distance into the 

 park, to the left of the main east drive, are to be found the fol- 

 lowing, all fine specimens : 



Picea Cephalonica, or Cephalonia or Mt. Enos fir ; Picea 

 Nordmanniana, or Nordmanns fir. These are both vigorous 

 and finely marked plants, thirty feet in height. Betinospora 

 pisifera aurea, or golden retinospora, eighteen feet in height ; 

 Sophora Japonica, or J-apan sophora ; Pinus excelsa, or lofty 

 Bhotan pine, thirty feet in height ; Pagus sylvatica pendula, or 

 purple beech ; Fagus ferruginea,'or American beech ; Magnolia 

 acuminatata, or cucumber tree ; Magnolia tripetela, or umbrella 

 magnolia ; Castanea vesca, or Spanish chestnut, noticeable in 

 spring for its long pendulous light green catkins. This tree is 

 twenty inches in diameter and thirty-five feet in height. 



In the neighborhood hying between Battle Hill, near Battle 

 pass, and the Deer paddock are specimens of Quercus Macro- 

 carpa, or large leaf Bur oak.; Quercus Macropirylla, or large 

 leaf oak ; Quercus Bobur, English oak, and otherwise known 

 as Hemes Oak; Quercus Cerris, or Turkey oak; Quercus fas- 

 tigiata, or P3 7 ramidal oak ; Tilia Europraa, or European linden ; 

 Tilia Europsea Alba, or European silver linden ; Juglans Nigra, 

 or black walnut. This tree is the last of a group of old wal- 

 nut trees that occupied a conspicuous site upon the high 

 ground near the old valley Grove road, and must have been 

 familiar to many of -our old citizens before the construction of 

 the park. In the valley grove which comprises a considerable 

 part of the middle woods from Battle pass running south, are 

 to be found specimens of Betula lenta or black birch of very 

 large size ; Nyssa Multiflora ; Pepperidge, or black or sour 

 gum ; Liquid Amber, or white or sweet gum ; Quercus Bubra, 

 or red oak ; Quercus Alba, or white oak ; Quercus Coccinea, or 

 scarlet oak ; Acer rubrum, or swamp maple, three feet in diam- 

 eter and forty high ; Liriodendron tulipifera, or tulip tree. 



