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The mapU's are generally more or less variegated with both red and 

 yellow, making these trees esi)ecially attraetive, but tlie prevailing hue of 

 the sugar maple is an orange yellow, and that of the red maples a bright 

 red or scarlet, though some individual trees are wholly yellow. The high- 

 est and brightest coloring of the foliage here is from the fifteenth to the 

 twentieth of October, or about ten days later than it is in the central and 

 western parts of this State, which fact may be due to the proximity of the 

 sea. By the first week in November the trees are quite bare of foliage, 

 with the exception of the oaks and beeches, and those of foreign origin, 

 such as Ulmus campestris, Tilia parvifolia, Populus alba, Salix Baby- 

 lonica, Crataegus Oxyacautha, Euonimus, Acer platanoides, Fagus syl- 

 vatica, Lonicera Japonica, etc. ; these last mentioned retain their more 

 slowly ripening leaves for a fortniglit long'er, while the leaves of the 

 oaks and beeches which are sheltered from tlie wind, persist on the 

 branches, though dry and dead, nearly through the Winter. It has been 

 observed that the foliage of the trees often changes color before the 

 appearance of frost; this is owing for the most part to drought, which 

 is not uncommon in the Fall and which affects especially trees of the 

 uplands and dry, sandy soil, while the same kinds of trees growing in 

 lowlands and moist soil continue green till the arrival of the first light 

 frosts. 



