Trees and shrubs of Prospect park . lowers in May, JapanAuciiha with splashed and spotted leaves, slenderDeutsia, and the lovely Azalia amcena, with gamnenta-crimson flowers in April. Mountain laurel is here andEuropean holly and rhododendrons, in gloriousbursts of bloom in June. Back of all these, like a mightygreen wall rise the green towers of magnificent Nor-way maples, American basswoods and lindens, and backof these, along the Drive, European lindens, Europeansilver lindens, and weeping European silver lindens. Now we have come to a spot where seats, facingthe Drive, are placed in rows b
Trees and shrubs of Prospect park . lowers in May, JapanAuciiha with splashed and spotted leaves, slenderDeutsia, and the lovely Azalia amcena, with gamnenta-crimson flowers in April. Mountain laurel is here andEuropean holly and rhododendrons, in gloriousbursts of bloom in June. Back of all these, like a mightygreen wall rise the green towers of magnificent Nor-way maples, American basswoods and lindens, and backof these, along the Drive, European lindens, Europeansilver lindens, and weeping European silver lindens. Now we have come to a spot where seats, facingthe Drive, are placed in rows beneath rustling lindensand elms. The spot is dear to the heart of the parkvisitor and on a fine day when the driving is good,not a seat is empty. The parade of fashion goesby, the golden air whispers to the leaves overhead,the birds carol unseen in the boughs, and cares andtroubles are forgotten. Behind this lovely spot is anornamental stone urn filled with the pretty belHs daisyand azaleas. Passing; on, we come to the terrace with. Leaf-Spray and Cones of Umbrella Pine {Sciadopitys ver- ticillata) Map 3. No. 53. 49 its effective stone work. The face of its wall is coveredwith Euonymus radicans, var. variegata. Back ofthis place the velvet lawns are gracefully set withchoice things. Here is a handsome Teass weepingmulberry, and, in spots, clump the spike-like leaves ofthe Yucca filamentosa, or Adams needle, which sendup straight shafts from their midst, in the top of the shaft its bloom breaks forth in greatheads of white flowers. Majestic American elmsguard the upper edge of this lawn in a kind of halfring and they seem to have been just the right treesto set off the foliage of the basswoods, silver lindens,tulip trees, Norway maples, sugar maples, English fieldmaples and sycamore maples which fill this lovelyspot with their shifting shadows and whisperingmusic. About the Restaurant itself, the beautiful thingsgathered there are too numerous to give in detail. We
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