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pared for packing, they might be placed 

 in a solution of salicylic acid as advised. 

 The sterilised earth in which the bulbs 

 are packed appears very suitable for the 

 work, and cannot be in any way consid- 

 ered as a cause of thedisease — G Massee, 

 in Kew Bulletin. 



AUTUMN COLORS. 



Autumn colors at Graceland are now 

 at their brightest, two places being 

 particularly attractive. One is a large 

 spruce with its dull green decked with 

 clambering vines. The Celastrus scan- 

 dens, native to Chicago, is striking in its 

 stronger, richer green. A grape vine 

 heightens the colors with bright yellow, 

 while the Virginia Creeper completes the 

 blaze with its rich and glossy scarlet. 

 There are not too many vines to produce 

 the effect of monotony, but just enough to 

 make the contrast with the color of the 

 spruce effective. 



The other is the surroundings of asmall 

 sheet of water near the east entrance. A 

 group of tall trees, a silver maple and 

 darker sugar maple lightened with 

 autumn colors, with an elm just peering 

 out from behind them, make a striking 

 middle ground overhanging the pool. 

 In front and merging with them is 

 a bright pepperridge all in scarlet and 

 half hiding a dark Norway maple. 

 Still further in front along the shore 

 are the whitened heads of eupatoriums 

 and other weedy plants contrasting 

 with a touch at their side of the dark 

 green of a pyrus and some spruces. An 

 overhanging elm and a mass of dogwood 

 with changing leaves and bright red 

 branches make up the foreground. Last, 

 a back ground of tall willows at the end 

 of a low vista seen over another mass of 



[CONCLUDED PAOR 62 I 



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