File:Trees and shrubs of Prospect park (1906) (14803568313).jpg

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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s yet, but will continue along the path weare on, keeping parallel with Flatbush Avenue. Wecome out now into an open space with a fine stretchof grass waving gently up to the brow of a rise. Thisrise is crowned with a picturesque and historic oldweeping willow which flung its whispering leaves to thedrum-beat of the Revolution, and near it stand a clusterof Indian bean trees (Catalpa bignonioides), which arefine sights in the last days of June or the early days ofJuly when they set all their white horns (spotted withyellovv^ and purple) and blow forth their silent beauty.Tlie far right-hand crest of this slope is set with fineclumps of Austrian and Scotch pine. While you arelooking at these, notice also the two splendid horse-chestnut trees (a little lower on the slope) that towerside by side, like twins in their similarity. They arebeautifully formed trees, absolutely perfect specimensof their kind, both in leafage and symmetry of form.If now, you continue straight on south along the
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13 Walk, you will pass, on the left, Mugho pine, single-leaved European ash, European flowering ash, willow-leaved European ash, white mulberry, Scotch pineand several European flowering ashes again. Just be-yond these the path forks again, the left branch slip-ping ofif down a delightful series of steps, leadingunder whispering hornbeams and rustling oaks andmaples, while the right branch swings gently aroundtoward the vicinity of Battle Pass. Almost oppositethe fork of the Walks stands a good type of the Tur-key oak. We will take the right-hand fork. Alongit you will be delighted in autumn by the tall heads ofthe iron weed (Vernonia novahoracensis) that reachout to you in cool purple from the grassy banksideat your right. Sturdy English oaks (Querciis 7ohur)line the path on the left, easily known by their leaveswhich are on very short stems and have a wavy-lobedcut. They are somewhat like the leaf of our whiteoak, but are loosely eared at the base and thicker.Their acorns have beaut

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