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Identifier: treesshrubsofpro01peet (find matches)
Title: Trees and shrubs of Prospect park
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Peet, Louis Harman, 1863- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Brooklyn. Prospect park. (from old catalog) Trees Shrubs
Publisher: New York, The Greenwich printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the leaves are scarcely lobed at all. Push on from the paper mulberries a little and strikeoff from the path to the lake border. At a point there,about opposite the Japan silver fir, on the upper Walkof the hill, you will be delighted to see a good speci-men of the smooth alder. Its little black cones hang-ing all through it tell you it is alder and its thick,finely serrate, smooth leaves, green on both sides, tellyou it is the Alnus serrulata. The leaf is obovate inshape, acute at the base, but its margin is very finelyserrate. Go up the hill again now to the middle path andsee if you can find the alternate-leaved dogwood whichstands near the Walk a little way along. You willknow it first of all by its alternate leaves. But itsbark, quite different from that of the flowering dog-wood, is ashy gray. Its leaves are noticeably taperpointed. If you are passing near here in late May,you may see its flowers, in large white flat cymes.These change into bright blue berries on reddish stalks.
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Cedar of Lebanon (Ccdrus Libani)Map 9. No. 102. 153 This dogwood stands about opposite a fine English oakon the other side of the Walk. A little south-west of the alternate-leaved dogwoodyou will see a pine tree that looks something like anAustrian pine, but you can tell at once that it is offiner, more elegant appearance. Its leaves are longerand much more slender than those of the Austrianpine. If you will examine these leaves with yourhand-glass you will see that they are concave on theundersides and convex on the outer. The pine isJapan pine (Piiius densiflora), and its long, slenderleaves give its branches a sweeping, rich look quitedifferent from the stiff bunching appearance of theAustrian. Just beyond the English oak, opposite the alternate-leaved dogwood, spoken of above, stands an exceed-ingly interesting tree which will be the last we considerin this ramble. It is a young Cedar of Lebanon and itis flourishing in true form. You will know it at onceby its fine feathery look.

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