Autumn I may remark here that the careful juxtaposition of plants which 

 Foliage differ in habit, colour, form, and size of foliage is too often 

 neglected in the case of both trees and shrubs. 



Hydrangea panlculata grandlflora makes a grand show in 

 August and September, the profuse, clear, white inflorescence 

 being conspicuous from a great distance ; nor is the beauty over 

 then, for the dead flower-heads which remain on the plants all 

 Winter are very striking. When in December of last year 

 (1903) Lord Aldenham showed a collection of cut twigs and 

 stems at the Royal Horticultural Society, nothing attracted 

 more attention than this. The plants are rather expensive, 

 but I know a large bed of them which, with trifling renovation, 

 has lasted for seventeen or eighteen years a long life com- 

 pared with the choice Roses nowadays. 



The plants should be lightly pruned in Spring. 



Many of the Cytisus class are worth growing for the dark 

 green wood as well as for their flowers, and Spartium junceum 

 has a bolder, more open growth with stouter twigs than the 

 others; none of them will tolerate hard pruning in the old 

 wood. 



Cassinla fulvlda syn. Diplopappus chrysophyllus has a 

 soft golden colour in twigs and leaf if pegged down and trimmed 

 over annually. It does best in a hot, dry, light soil. 



Rosa nitida, which is far too rarely seen, should be dealt 

 with in the same way ; not only do the leaves all turn a clear 

 red in Autumn, but the fine hirsute twigs all take on the same 

 colour until the sap rises, and the plant is as hardy as it is 

 beautiful. 



Among other plants for Winter which from rarity or other 

 reasons are more fitted for single specimens I would include : 



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