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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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dge and so back to Cleft Ridge Span. On passing through the Arch there are a few thingsto note on our right hand and then we will follow theWalk which leads off at the left and wanders alongthe eastern side of Lullwater. Well up on the bank, on the right is a fine highbush which in June, is hung full of beautiful bell-likeflowers of the purest white. By a careless observer, itmight be taken, out of bloom, for a syringa, but it isquite different as you see by looking closely at itsleaf. It is Deiitma crenata and you will find manyhandsome clumps of it all over the Park. Just backof this bush, you will find another very interestingshrub. As you look at it you are at once struck withthe remarkable resemblance of its leaves to those ofthe fringe tree (Chionanthus). Indeed, this resem-blance has given it one of its familiar names, fringe-tree-leaved lilac.^ If you have any doubts about itsbeing a lilac, stand before it some June day and youwill see it throwing up handsome panicles of white
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JosiKA Lilac (Syringa Jusikcea)Map 10. No. I. i63 flowers that at once say lilac to your discriminat-ing eye. It is the Syringa Josikcea or the Josika lilacand gets its botanical name from the Baroness vonJosika who discovered its parent stock in Hungary. Itis certainly very handsome and there are many bushesof it in the Park. Some of them bear deep purpleflowers, much deeper in hue than those of our com-mon lilac. Do not confuse Syringa, the generic termof lilac, with Syringa which is botanically known bythe name Philadelphns. Of course, you at once recognize the very hand-some Camperdown elm at the turn of the Walk as itbends to go over to the Boat House. You no doubthave already learned the look, of its leaf, roughdark green, broad across the top and ending in beau-tiful points which shoot out conspicuously from itsheavy serrations. The umbrella-like form of this treeis enough to mark it, but learn to know its leaf. No-tice, too, its kinship of leaf with the Scotch elm. Now let us

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