198 Landscape Gardening 



Trees with Colored Foliage 



Maple, Reitenbach. Beech, Copper. 



Maple, Schwerdler's. Beech, Rivers' Purple. 



Maple, Japanese. Poplar, Golden. 



Maple Purple Sycamore. Plum, Purple-leaved. 



Maple, Tricolored Sycamore. Oak, Purple-leaved. 

 Birch, Purple-leaved. 



Reitenbach's Maple (Acer platanoides, var. Reitenbachii) 

 and Schwedler^s Maple {A. p., var. Schuedlerii) have 

 already been described under Lawn-trees. 



Japan Purple-leaved Maple {A. palmatum, var. atro- 

 purpureum and sangimmmi) , Fig. 94". — These two varieties 

 are very much alike, but the first has somewhat darker 

 foHage with a deeper-lobed and rather narrower leaf than 

 the last. They grow nearly as large as the common form 

 of this species, i.e., 10 to 15 ft., and the foHage is the most 

 beautifully colored of all of the purple-leaved trees. They 

 require a deep, warm soil, and perhaps a little shelter from 

 too much exposure, and are more hardy when grown in the 

 lawn than when grown in a rich border. 



Purple Sycamore Maple (^4. psetidoplatanus, var. pur- 

 purascens).—A heavy, broad-headed tree, with dark bronze- 

 green foliage, but not of the decided color possessed by 

 Schwedler's or the Japanese species. Not quite hardy in 

 moist, cold soils. 



Tricolored Sycamore Maple (A. p., var. tricolor).— 

 Of the same form as the last, but with leaves beautifully 

 marked with white, green, and purple. Very interesting 

 but not a conspicuous tree. 



Purple-leaved Birch {Behda pendula var. purpurea). 

 — A tree of good form and with conspicuous colored foliage 

 in spring, soon changing to a bronze green. The contrast 

 of this dark foliage with the white bark of the branches 



