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Lawsoniana, or Lawson Cypress, 18 feet high ; Cryptomeria 

 Lobii, or Lobb's Japanese cedar, 20 feet high ; Cunninghamia 

 Sinensis, or Chinese pine ; Retenospora pisifera, 20 feet high ; 

 Ulmus Paradox fastigiata — Pyramidal Elm ; Ulmus Montana 

 Camperdownii pendula, or Camperdown (Scotch) weeping elm 

 14 inches in diameter and less than 20 feet in hight. This tree 

 is at the turn of the walk at the north side of Cleftridge span 

 leading from the latter to the Pedestrian Concourse, and is a 

 curious and interesting specimen of a worked and grafted 

 plant; Ulmus Montana, or Mountain or Scotch elm; Ulmus 

 Camperdownii, or Camp.erdown Elm ; Planera acuminata, or 

 Kiaka Elm ; Acer polymorphum, or Japan maple, 8 inches diam- 

 eter and 18 feet high. These latter are some of the largest and 

 finest specimens in America and remarkable for the rich crimson 

 color of their foliage in the Autumn ; Acer pseudo platanus pur- 

 purea — purple sycamore maple ; Acer Eubrum — swamp maple; 

 Cercis Canadensis, or red bud or Judas tree. The branches of 

 this tree are covered with a profusion of purple flowers early in 

 Spring, before the appearance of the foliage. Tilia Europsea 

 Argentia, European silver leaved linden. Taxodium distichum, 

 American bald cypress . 



Upon the lower level of the Pedestrian Concourse, facing the 

 Music Island, is to be found also a fine grove of Platanus occi- 

 dentalis and Platanus orientalis, the American and eastern 

 plane tree, fine specimens of growth and development. Upon 

 the borders of the South Lake drive are to be found a number 

 of the Ulmus campestris, or English elm, in a vigorous and 

 characteristic state of development. 



In this neighborhood, too, may be seen the Fraxinus excelsa 

 aurea, or golden-barked European ash ; the fraxinus sal- 

 ixfolia, or European willow- leaved ash; the fraxinus excelsa 

 punctua, or blotch-leaf ash ; the fraxinus lacineata, or cut- 

 leaved English ash. 



Several of the Ulmus Americanus, or American Elm, to be 

 found upon the park, are very perfect specimens of this beauti- 

 ful and graceful native tree. 



