Autumn effect of light, the sun being low and shining through the leaves, 

 effects but many shrubs bear as brilliant colour on their leaves, and 

 should be more used to give beauty of this kind. 



Medlars turn to wonderful shades of red, russet, and 

 purple making a beautiful background to many flowers, and 

 few rare shrubs excel in colour the common wild Cherry with 

 its shades of rose and orange and yellow. In Mrs Boyle's 

 garden at Huntercombe a delightful late autumn effect was 

 given with a tangle of Clematis-flammula shown up by the 

 vivid copper tones of a big Beech, while under the Clematis 

 were clumps of big Winter Cherry Physalis Francheti 

 making a mass of brilliant orange-red and yellow. 



Many of our hedgerows are full of suggestion and beauty 

 at this time : Spindlewood is plentiful here covered with its 

 profusion of lovely deep rose-pink berries, disclosing as they 

 open the orange seeds within : growing with the Spindlewood 

 are sometimes to be seen masses of ripe Rose-hips and large 

 bunches of shining black Privet berries which set off both 

 pink and red. 



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