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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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dsand the solace of green things, gently waving to everybreath of air. Beyond the Van Houttei on the left of the Walk,and close to it, there are two majestic tulip trees, whichlook as if they might be twin columns of what wasonce some noble forest Parthenon, and just beyondthem you will find (on the right) more bushes ofthe Spircca Van Houttei. Back of these are a rowof cherry birches. On the left, as you pass along,about diagonally opposite the Van Houttei Is a goodclump of the pretty Thunbergs barberry anda choke cherry just beyond it. At this pointyou ought to be about opposite a lamp-poston the Drive; and about midway between youand the post is a fine red oak (Quercus rubra). Alittle further on, are American chestnut and then sev-eral dogwoods close together. Here it will be worthyour while to cut across to the Drive for a momentand have a look at the things on edge of its bank, as itbends to go south. Here is a beautiful white canoebirch and almost on the point of the turn a good
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Tulip Tree (Liriodendron iiilipifera)Map 4. No. I. ^ ^ > 1 ^iNflu Uj i^^^^BR^^^ W^^^>*& ^p M 1 ni NoRDMAnns Silver Fir (Abies Nordmanniami.)Map 4. No. 2. S9 Nordmann silver fir. Just south of the Nordmannyou will find a clump of three Austrian pines bunchedclose together very near a lamp-post. The little coni-fer just south-east of the lamp-post is not Austrianpine, but Swiss stone pine (Pinus Ceuibra). Let us now come back to the path again and continueon south. At about the crest of the rise, on yourright, you will find black oaks, two fairly near to-gether, tall, strong, majestic. You can know themby their hard, dark, grayish bark, and strong,close ridges. Beyond, you pass common locustRobinia psevidacacia, just over the brow of the rise,as the path begins to descend. A little further on, ifyou are walking in dogwood days, you will have a treatindeed in the little clump of red-flowering dogwood(Cornus florida, var. rubra). There are several ofthem here, on the left of the

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