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would not be thought disregardful of the supreme charms 

 of hardy herbaceous plants or wild flowers, but trees and 

 shrubs must always form the main body of the effect of 

 lawn planting, and so, in this chapter I propose to restrict 

 myself to the consideration of their peculiar attractions. 



The green leaves of June are solid and rich, and produce 

 the main broad effects of foliage in early summer as well as 

 later, but the lawn-planter who fails to employ all the 

 various coloring of leaf that can be secured so easily for the 

 lawn at this season, who neglects to minister in full measure 

 to the universal deep enjoyment of color as displayed in 

 natural associations of June leaves and flowers neglects one 

 half his art. 



First and foremost among the hardy plants that minister 

 to our enjoyment of color in June are the maples. Not all 

 the maples are thus highly gifted. 



The scarlet maple has borne its flowers and early red 

 leaf-buds, and now looks merely green, and the silver dasy- 

 <xtrpum has also its usual green color. So likewise the little 

 English field maple, and the sugar, the striped, and the broad- 

 leaved maple (Acer macropJiyllum ) . It is enough, however, 

 that we have the sycamore, Norway, ash-leaved, Colchwum 

 rubrum (IcetumJ, and above all, the several unequalled 

 Japanese maples. The lawn that is ornamented with these 

 trees alone has a rich variety of color even without flowers. 



Let us look at these maples. The sycamore (Acer Pseiido- 

 Platanux ) apparently has its color ready at hand to sport in 

 diverse varieties of silver, gold, and reddish purple. Syca- 

 more maples, in their simplest type, have red veinings and 

 mid-ribs, and especially red leaf stalks. There are several 



