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Descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and collections
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this is sometimes known as creeping Charlie ; the fringed
loosestrife, from North America, is also here, as is the…
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smooth aider, common along streams and in swamps, is also
here.
Following the birch family on the same side of the…
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illustrating the plum family, to which belong the plums,
cherries, apricots, and peaches. As many of the species of…
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together with other woody members of this family. The
tanners'-tree family comes next with a single representative…
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of Europe, the berries of which are acrid and poisonous ; the
berries of several of the species of oleaster are edible…
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the path from the viburnums, and here will be found, among
others, the fragrant honeysuckle, from China, one of the…
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lies) as a collection apart, many species grown here not being
represented in the arboretum and fruticetum. Immediately…
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is valued in that region on account of its bark which is used
in tanning leather.
The swamp oak, the scarlet oak, the…
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the Bronx River. The magnolia family will be found
mainly in the swale lying between the two ridges, with a
few…
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Near the eastern end of the long bridge are trees illus-
trating the senna family, the pea family, the rue family, and…
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it is highly esteemed ; it is also used for wooden-ware and
paper pulp. To the north of the buckeye family is the…