Trees and shrubs of Central Park . ngleaves, often quite distinctly three-pointed. ThisSpiraea bears very showy white flowers in June, inlarge corymbs. Growing in with it is a young Englishmaple. Continuing along, you meet, still on your right, alittle back from the Walk, by the rocks, a broad-spread-ing, brown-barked tree with smooth, shining light-green leaves, which are variously shaped, some mitten-like with the thumb on one side or the other, or bothsides at once, some without the thumb at all. Thesemitten-shaped leaves tell you at once that it is a mul-berry, and its smooth (upper side),
Trees and shrubs of Central Park . ngleaves, often quite distinctly three-pointed. ThisSpiraea bears very showy white flowers in June, inlarge corymbs. Growing in with it is a young Englishmaple. Continuing along, you meet, still on your right, alittle back from the Walk, by the rocks, a broad-spread-ing, brown-barked tree with smooth, shining light-green leaves, which are variously shaped, some mitten-like with the thumb on one side or the other, or bothsides at once, some without the thumb at all. Thesemitten-shaped leaves tell you at once that it is a mul-berry, and its smooth (upper side), shining leaves tellyou it is the white mulberry. You cannot mistakethis tree, for it stands directly opposite a lamp-postwhich stares boldly upon it from the other (your left)side of the Walk. Directly under this handsome mul-berry are great masses of the Japan variety of hedgebind-weed, Polygonum cuspidatum or Polygonum Sie-boldi, with splendid, broad, oval-oblong stalked leaveswhich come to an acute point at the tip. This bushy. J 2 25 perennial flings itself right and left in glorious abandon,arching its striped stems, beautifully tinged with crim-son here, there, everywhere, and if you happen to passit in late August you will surely have to stop to lookat the fine feather-sprays of its delicate flowers whichfloat out and droop in pretty fluffy little panicles fromfour to six inches long, from the axils of the by the Walk again, at your right, nestling verynear the fence, is Deutzia gracilis again, and beyond itsyringa {Philadelphus grandiHorus). Beyond the lamp-post, you pass, on the left, a veryinteresting birch tree, the red or river birch, often calledalso the black birch. You will know it easily by itsshaggy-looking bark, especially tattered and ragged onthe upper parts of the tree. In other portions of thePark you will find this tree exceedingly shaggy, withits tattered ends curled back, looking very much likethe bark of the yellow birch. The general tone
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