ARBORETUM NOTES. 85 
AMPELIDE. 
summer it spreads a beautiful mantle of a rich and 
delicate green over walls and trees; and more 
closely looked at, the form both of the leaves and 
of the young shoots is remarkably graceful. In 
autumn the colouring of the foliage is surprisingly 
beautiful, By the middle of September in most 
years, and sometimes earlier, it begins to be 
variegated with red; as the season goes on, this 
colour (sometimes mixed with yellow) encroaches 
more and more on the green; and in the early 
part of October, usually, the whole is of a rich 
crimson. This year, 1868, as might be expected 
after so hot and bright a summer, the colouring is 
remarkably fine. There is a plant against the 
north east face of the house and climbing now 
quite to the top; this is always the first plant of 
the kind here which turns red, and now (October 
10) it has for the last ten days or more been of the 
most glowing and beautiful crimson, from its 
lowest to its topmost leaves. 
The one which grows against the lodge on the 
high road is equally rich and beautiful in colour. 
This plant has never formed any fruit here, 
though it flowers abundantly every year. The 
berries are figured in Smith and Abbot’s ‘“ Jnsects 
of Georgia.” Vol. 1, plate 30. 
The genus Ampelopsis of Michaux is very proper- 
ly reduced by Bentham and Hooker, to a section 
of Vitis. 
Ampelopsis 
hederaceze 
