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COnRESPONDINa EDITORS : 



JAMES TAPLIN, 



MARK MILLER. 



YOL. 29. 



MAEOH, 18T4. 



ISrO. 333. 



Planting for Autumn Foliage— In the 

 excellent report on ornamental planting, 

 read by Grco. Ellwanger before the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society, we notice 

 that he alludes to the subject with not only 

 great force, but eloquence. 



A home is hardly a home, despite the 

 many attractions that may be within, unless 

 something without, with its cheering pres- 

 ence, serves to add to its attractiveness as 

 well. From the rose bush or flowering 

 shrub, distilling incense from each opening 

 bud ; the Virgin's Bower or ivy vine, that 

 weave their intricate network around the 

 porch, to the shade tree that offers its leafy 

 umbrage to the passer-by, or the evergreen 

 that, even in winter, suggests warmth and 

 bids defiance to the chilling blast. 



Trees are without, what pictures and 

 works or art are within. They clothe naked- 

 ness; they relieve the eye ; they are a never- 

 ceasing well-spring of pleasure that but en- 

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dears itself as age sets his footprint on the 

 decaying branch and withering bough. 



Who, in the recollections of his early 

 home, were he fortunate enough to have 

 passed his younger days surrounded by 

 sylvan charms, has them not impressed upon 

 him all the more vividly from the associa- 

 tions that old trees carry with them ? Apart 

 from the infinite variety of form, size, and 

 shape assumed by trees, their variance is none 

 the less striking in their manner of fruitage, 

 their dissimilarity in habit, and their diver- 

 sity in gorgeous color and tints of foliage. 



Nor must we forget the exquisite apparel 

 that clothes our trees in autumn. Their an- 

 nual tribute to the passing year, as well as 

 the effect produced by the different colored 

 berries and bark of many of our trees and 

 shrubs in the winter, such as the Prinus (the 

 flamingo of the swamps), the viburnum oxyco- 

 cus, the family of the eunonymus; the diff"er- 

 ent varieties of the berberry ; the coral- 

 colored berries of the mountain ashes ; amber- 

 hued ring of the golden willow; the lustrous 

 red bark of the dog-wood ; and the silvery 

 sheen of the birch, 



