
          843.

*Name given to such buds by

a cloud to be seen, the day was perfect.  As I went along the road I 
stopped frequently to examine the trees, particularly the Sycamore and
the Robinia -- the Locust.  Examining the so called terminal bud -- the
pseudo-terminal* bud of the Sycamore, I observed that it is in fact the axillary
bud of the last leaf; the true terminal bud is a small affair, which
I think becomes abortive, the stem increasing in length by means of the pseudo-
terminal bud.  Shall note again this spring.  With the Robinia, there is
no doubt; here one sees plainly that it is a pseudo-terminal bud that
prolongs the stem, for here it is not only the terminal bud, but most
times quite a piece of the stem that dies and in falling off leaves
either a scar or as in most cases a tiny stump of more or less length.  It
was while I was examining the Robinia, that Mr. Chaney came along.  He lives
on a piece of land of the Cromwell estate.  His house overlooks the river.  He
told me he had four English Walnut trees growing on his place.  When I told
him that I would come to see them when in bloom, he did not seem to know
that they had flowers, still as they had fruit, he thought that they must
have flowers.  Mr. C. told me, in the course of our conversations, that all the
land to the east of Brooklyn all the way to Curtis Bay belongs to the
Raynor Company; the park, therefore, back of Grieneisen's is not Cromwell's
Park as I had thought but Raynor's.  Bidding Mr. C. good-bye, I continued
        