sweetest of all the family, for which we now look in vain in Autumn. 



most catalogues, clusters of soft yellow and pink blossoms hang Trees for 



from the end of every shoot filling the air with their fragrance, Colour 



its handsome foliage keeping green on a south-west wall till 



nearly the end of Winter. Close by little Ophirie is a mass of 



bloom till long after the first frosts. Climbing Captain Christy, 



which was at its best in July, manages still to give a few huge 



blossoms in October ; and the invaluable and semi-evergreen Reve 



d'Or, with Celine Forestier, Alister Stella Gray, Belle Lyonaise, 



give us our needed yellows and creams, while Aimee Vibert 



flings its vigorous shoots and white clusters over the nearest 



fence. 



Colour effects in the Autumn garden are, however, by no 

 means dependent on flowers alone, fortunately for us. For the 

 first frosts, which blacken our Dahlias and make us hasten to 

 clear the beds of Begonias and their other charms, create a fresh 

 glory among the trees and shrubs. And, in planting our 

 gardens, it is well to pause and reflect upon this very important 

 and attractive question ; as many and great are the possible 

 mistakes that come from haste and carelessness. Things beauti- 

 ful in themselves may be so misused as to produce a perfectly 

 detestable effect. And this we should always bear in mind in 

 our plantings ; for it is on the use, not the abuse, of our 

 materials that our picture depends. As an instance of what 

 should and should not be done with that invaluable tree, 

 Prunus Pissardi, the purple Japanese Plum, I see two gardens 

 in my mind's eye. In one, fine trees of the Plum are planted 

 alternately with equally fine trees of the white Acer negundo 

 var., among stiff borders on either side of a broad walk, and 

 their monotonous formality is the one and only thing that 



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