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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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ican beech, with smooth light gray bark and chestnut-like leaves. Going still westward on the Drive, justback to the south-west of the last Nordmann, youcome to a red maple and further over to a noble ever-green, of light feathery aspect, and graceful fountain-spray form of branching. It was perfect before it lostits top branches, but it is beautiful still. It is theMount Atlas variety of the Cedar of Lebanon (CedriisAtlantic a). You probably have noticed this tree oftenin your rambles and perhaps have been told that it isCedar of Lebanon. It is in a way. Cedar of Lebanon.That Is it is a variety of it, known botanically as theMount Atlas Cedar (Cednis Atlantica). If you com-pare its leaves with those of the Cedrus Libani on thesouthern slope of Breeze Hill you will see that thesehave a glaucous tinge over them. In addition theyare mostly cylindric, stiff, mucronate or sharp pointedand closely clustered. Those of the Libani are longneedle form, taper pointed, few In fascicle and are of
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Mount; Atlas Cedar (Ceirus Atlantica)Map II. No. 53. 197 a deep green color. Notice too that this Mount AtlasCedar throws up its branches in perfect vase formwhich is characteristic of the Atlantica, whereas theLihani has a distinct horizontal swing to its branches. Let us now come back to the junction of the Walkby the black alder and continue along its coursetoward Swan Boat Lake. On the right, about oppo-site a second offshoot of the Walk to the left, youwill find thick clumps of acanthopanax or Aralia penta-phylla which you recognize at once by its five leaves.Great masses of Deutzia gracilis bank both sides ofthis second offshoot of path which climbs a few stepsand runs around in a short arc to meet the Drive. Wewill not follow it now, but will keep on with the pathwhich runs under the Three-Arched-Bridge. On your left, about midway between the offshootof the path and the Bridge, close by the Walk andleaning over it are some trees which you will do wellto look at closely. They ar

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