Trees and shrubs of Central Park . oat gently down aboutyou like the quiet thoughts of an idle reverie. All ishushed, subdued, mellowed. No harsh note comes toyou. The very voices of the passers-by are softened,as if the scene possessed some subtle power of enchant-ment to enforce silence. If you have aught of artistor poet in you, and every one has or should have, cometo this lovely spot when autumn is hanging about it itsdream veils and do thou sit here and dream too. Letthe city with its cares float away in its enfolding mistswhile you sit here amid the falling leaves, the warm,golden sunsh
Trees and shrubs of Central Park . oat gently down aboutyou like the quiet thoughts of an idle reverie. All ishushed, subdued, mellowed. No harsh note comes toyou. The very voices of the passers-by are softened,as if the scene possessed some subtle power of enchant-ment to enforce silence. If you have aught of artistor poet in you, and every one has or should have, cometo this lovely spot when autumn is hanging about it itsdream veils and do thou sit here and dream too. Letthe city with its cares float away in its enfolding mistswhile you sit here amid the falling leaves, the warm,golden sunshine and the subdued colors of an autumnday and live! In this maze of winding paths, crossing and recross-ing as they do, it is quite impossible to follow outclearly any single line of rambling. Confusion wouldmost certainly result from any such attempt. So I havepursued in the treatment of this chapter the plan of plot-ting, at easily distinguishable-points on the map, such ascrossings, intersections and other determinable w i89 the various important kinds of trees and shrubs in thissection. Of these, such as have been met with before inother rambles are not here described, only the newvarieties, and these are: Acer Spicatum. (Mountain Maple. No. 65.) Nearthe handsome shrub, Corylopsis, in the northeasterlypart of the Ramble, a little off from the Walk, and inbehind some other shrubs, you will find this rathersmall sample of the maple which flings its glory overcountry roads. You will have no difficulty in findingit if you take the path which runs almost northerly fromthe junction near the Corylopsis. It lies a few feet tothe right of the Walk, as you face north, about half adozen paces from the junction, and nestles very shylyin behind the clumps here, as if longing for the retiredhaunts of wood or glen or shaded roadside. The mountain maple is easily identified by its are divided into three tapering lobes above themiddle of the leaf, the central lobe usu
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