THE 



September, 1858. 



AND SCAPE effects rank among the 

 highest productions in the art of 

 gardening, and, in autumn, when the 

 foliage of many trees and shrubs pre- 

 sents us with a diversity of contrasted 

 tints, the foresight of the planter, in 

 arranging them so as to produce a warm 

 and harmonious picture, is evidenced to 

 the best advantage. The summer glow 

 of the most perfect flower garden is not 

 more beautiful, nor more pleasing to 

 the eye, than many park and shrubbery 

 scenes, where the planning and plant- 

 ing have been carried out so as to 

 give full effect to the splendour of the 

 autumnal hues, as displayed in the first 

 flush in the falling leaf. Nor, in all the 

 varied embellishments of a garden, are there any that can be compared 

 with the broadly-massed outlines, and the vast breadths of russet, crimson, 

 orange, purple, and green, presented by well-grown, groups of trees and 

 shrubs, if tastefully arranged as to habit and colour. An old wall, covered 

 with Irish ivy, and Virginian creeper, is one of the finest of out-door pic- 

 tures at this time of year, but if we wander through ground well furnished 

 with elms, maples, beeches, thorns, ash, birch, sumach, and scarlet oak, 

 we have the glories of the beddirig system developed on the grandest 

 scale, colour being even a more prominent element in the scene, than 

 form, though the latter is not to be neglected, in selecting varieties for 

 autumnal effect. Trees that give distinct colours to the landscape, such 

 as the white sycamore, or the purple beech, are even beautiful standing 

 alone, to be judged on their individual merits ; but, when such tints are 

 so easily attainable, the wonder is that so few give their attention to them, 

 as materials for grand combinations of variously-coloured foliage, the 



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