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skilfully grouped, such American products in 

 foliage, when dumped in England, are apt to 

 look a little crude against our mellow, tem- 

 pered landscape. And although a Scarlet 

 Maple on the Hudson River or Erie Railroad 

 seems in place with its vermilion and emerald 

 under that " implacable sky," yet against 

 sober British Oaks and Beeches it may savour 

 somewhat of the patchwork-quilt style of 

 planting a thing to be most strenuously 

 avoided. 



Rhus Cofinus, the Venetian Sumach, should 

 be found in every shrubbery ; for all through 

 summer its foliage and soft flower-plumes are 

 beautiful, and towards autumn its round leaves 

 take on such delicious tones of pink, red, and 

 green, as to make it a most decorative object. 

 The same may be said of the Snowy Mespilus 

 (Amelanchier\ attractive alike in early spring, 

 with its tassels of white flowers which are in 

 full bloom while the leaf-buds are beginning to 

 burst in soft pinky-brown, or when it flames 

 in Autumn. 



And Lilacs ! I remember when I was 



