Trees and shrubs of Prospect park . or to reassure judgments of correctdistancing. Sometimes it happens that a bush is cutout or a tree cut down. Landmarks of this kind oftendisappear, but lamp-posts are not cut down so fre-quently. Let us now come back to the Walk again. Wepass over quite a little stretch of meadow until wecome near two catalpas that have been cut down tomere stumps of trunks. These are on the right ofthe Walk, and not very far from Meadow Port you cut across from them, to the left, over thegrass and across the Drive, you will find anotherlamp-post. The first tree to
Trees and shrubs of Prospect park . or to reassure judgments of correctdistancing. Sometimes it happens that a bush is cutout or a tree cut down. Landmarks of this kind oftendisappear, but lamp-posts are not cut down so fre-quently. Let us now come back to the Walk again. Wepass over quite a little stretch of meadow until wecome near two catalpas that have been cut down tomere stumps of trunks. These are on the right ofthe Walk, and not very far from Meadow Port you cut across from them, to the left, over thegrass and across the Drive, you will find anotherlamp-post. The first tree to the south of this lamp-post, on the Drive, is a purple leaved English elm,the next is an Austrian pine, the next is a curled-leaved English elm and is located directly oppositeanother lamp-post on the other side of the Drive, soyou can scarcely help finding these trees. Back oflamp-post number one, in this enlightened gatheringof things botanical and mineral, you will find anotherTurkey oak, close by the Walk and in fine 217 If you go back now to the Walk on the Meadowagain and go through Meadow Port Arch you willcome out upon a little island of shrubbery set downvery cozily Just in front of the Arch. This islandhas somewhat the form of a spherical triangle withthe longer side (the westerly) indented by a curvingbay. We begin with the branch that slips off at ourleft as we come from the Arch, and follow aroundthis island of shrubbery. In the easterly angle ofthe island, just as you come from the Arch, is ever-green thorn {Cratcogus pyracantha) with dark shin-ing foliage. This shrub bears light pink flowers andorange-scarlet berries in the winter. A Swiss stonepine fills the south-westerly angle of the island andjust this side of it, that is east of it, is a good bushof the sessile-leaved Weigela. Diagonally across fromthe Swiss stone pine, on the opposite border of thepath, parallel with the boundary line of the Park, isan excellent clump of the dwarf long-racemed b
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