Trees and shrubs of Central Park . erries of about the sizeof a pea, which hang upon the tree in grape-like clus-ters late into the winter. The bark of the tree is ofa light gray and corky. The tree gets its botanicalname from two Greek words, phellos, cork, and den-dron, tree. Picea Orientalis. (Eastern or Oriental Spruce. ) To find this handsome variety of spruce takethe right-hand Walk at the Lenox Avenue Gate, OneHundred and Tenth Street. Follow it to the west un-til it throws out a short branch to the Drive; crossthe Drive at this point and take up the Walk againon the other side of
Trees and shrubs of Central Park . erries of about the sizeof a pea, which hang upon the tree in grape-like clus-ters late into the winter. The bark of the tree is ofa light gray and corky. The tree gets its botanicalname from two Greek words, phellos, cork, and den-dron, tree. Picea Orientalis. (Eastern or Oriental Spruce. ) To find this handsome variety of spruce takethe right-hand Walk at the Lenox Avenue Gate, OneHundred and Tenth Street. Follow it to the west un-til it throws out a short branch to the Drive; crossthe Drive at this point and take up the Walk againon the other side of the Drive. Some steps meet youhere, with some good clumps of Reeves spiraea garn-ishing their easterly side. At the foot of these stepsturn to your left and go easterly a short space alongthe shore walk of the Harlem Meer. The Walkspreads out here in a little platform-like space to comedown close to the water, forming small tongues ofbank on either side. About, opposite the easterlytongue of bank that lies between water and walk,. Chinese G kk Tree (Phcllodciidron Aiiiiirciisc)^laD 15. No. II. 331 you will find this Oriental spruce. A good honeylocust stands diagonally over from it, to the south-east. Like all true spruces the leaves of the Orientalare four-sided and scattered singly over the remember that the chief feature of the pine isthe characteristic gathering of its leaves together inlittle bundles (fascicles), of twos, threes, or spruce is therefore easily distinguished from thepine by observing this leaf feature alone. With thespruce each leaf is fastened to the branch singly, andis /ot<r-sided. In this four-sided feature it differs fromthe fir which has its leaves Hat. There are many otherbotanical distinctions between the pine, the spruce,and the fir, but these features just mentioned will beenough for any rambler who has not delved into thedeeper mysteries of botany, to tell at a glance whethera tree is a pine, spruce or fir. It may be well
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