THE AUTUMN GARDEN 221 



distract our attention from the broader effects 

 of trees and shrubs, which should be so dis- 

 posed as to produce the harmonious whole. 

 But when flowers are well-nigh over, 



" And fruit and leaf are as gold and fire, 

 And the oat is heard above the lyre, 

 And the hoofed heel of a Satyr crushes 

 The chestnut husk at the chestnut root," 



then how all-important do our plantings and 

 groupings become. Here, for instance, are my 

 notes one day in an Autumn not long ago, 

 which taught me, among certain other things 

 which have little to do perhaps with garden- 

 craft, how much may be done with the 

 minimum of expense, by trees and shrubs 

 planted for colour effect ; for every leaf of 

 every tree and bush was singularly vivid. 



" A Prunus Pissardii seen against the bronze 

 green of a mighty oak and the warm yellow of 

 the 'Turn of the road/ has been gradually 

 transformed from its Summer garb of purple- 

 brown into a pyramid of glowing crimson, each 

 day adding a fresh touch to the richness of its 

 colour. Near by, in the Spiraea bed at the 



