Shrubs for Perhaps one of the most effective masses of autumn 



Autumn colouring can be produced by collecting a lot of suckers or 



Colour young plants of the common Stag-horned Sumach (Rbus 



typblna] and treating it precisely as I have suggested earlier in 



this paper in the case of the common Snowberry. The 



ordinary sticky, leggy appearance of the plant is avoided, and 



by summer time you have a dense level sheet of semi-tropical 



looking foliage, 2 feet 6 inches to 3 feet high, which attracts 



universal attention in September by the brilliance of its red and 



orange tints. 



Rbus glabra lacimata colours equally well and has a more 

 elegant form, but it is far less vigorous, and more expensive. 



Among late-flowering trees and shrubs I can recommend 

 Robinia neo-mexicana (pale violet) ; Olearla Haas til (white) ; 

 Spartium junceum (rich yellow), a very suitable flower for table 

 decorations ; Desmodium penduliflorum syn. Lespedexa Sieboldi 

 (dark violet) ; Hibiscus of sorts, particularly the single white (totus 

 alb us] ; Hub us frutlcosus fl. pL roseo, a free double-flowering 

 Bramble with pompons of light pink ; Colletia spinosa (white), 

 covered with Lilac-like blooms in mid-September; Ceanothus 

 americanus (white), a very free flowerer; also the light blue 

 deciduous variety, as to the proper name of which I am not 

 certain ; and latest of all, not flowering till September, Caryopteris 

 Mastacanthus (Heliotrope blue), which is one of the Sage 

 family. 



Besides the above plants which I have suggested as pro- 

 ducing a good autumn effect when planted in groups, I would 

 recommend the following as suitable for single specimens : 

 Taxodlum distichum^ or the deciduous Cypress, prefers the 

 neighbourhood of water, but will do quite well without, and 



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