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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lozenge-like bark. Almost directly opposite the ashstands one of its clansmen, tall and majestic, a gloryof brilliant sun-fire playing over its bark on brightwinter days. Not far from this ash, you meet a sugarmaple, beautiful in autumn when its leaves begin toplay with reds and golds and crimsons. Backof these two trees, close by the waters edgestand an American elm and a laurel leaved willow.The laurel leaved willow stands tip-toe on the littlepoint or jut of land that makes a cove here. Walkup to it and see its beautiful shining dark green leaves.There are many of these willows in the Park and itis well to make their acquaintance early. Stand backa little and get the sunshine over their glossy leaves.Isnt that a flame of white fire! Watch the breezesend them into shivers of flying glass. The leaf ofthis tree somewhat resembles that of the shining wil-low (Salix lucida), but the leaf of the shining wil-low is much longer-taper-pointed. Coming back to the Walk again, beyond the sugar
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Bay or Laurel-leaved Willow (Salix pentandra)Map 7- No. 28. 107 maple, you find on the right another good sized whiteash and beyond it, not far from the point where theWalk forks, European linden. A good Osage orangestands near the Walk, just beyond the linden and aboutopposite the point where the Walk branches. TheOsage orange is identified by the very distinct spinesin the axils of its leaves. Look for them, for they areworth seeing. Some of the botanies speak of theflowers of the Osage orange as inconspicuous, butI saw this tree covered with blossoms one June dayand a very pretty sight it was. The tree has in-teresting fruit, large and globular and of an orange-like look, whence its name. It is golden yellow whenripe. A little off to one side, from the Osage orange, aboutmidway between it and the water is a clump of verypeculiarly leaved shrubbery. If you dont know it andshould come upon it in July, you would wonder whatit was, with its rather spindle shaped heads of fuzzywhite flo

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