GREEN AUTUMNAL FOLIAGE. 



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none can be more generally satisfactory. Not specially 

 early in spring in putting forth leaves, they are most 

 beautiful in June, and indeed throughout the summer. In 



WEEPING BEECH IN WINTER. 



autumnal landscapes, however, their late foliage, almost 

 evergreen during mild winters, performs a valuable part, 

 for the very reason that there is now so much less beauty 

 among trees than earlier in the season. All kinds of beeches 

 are fine in the fall. The cut-leaved, the purple, and the 

 common American and European beeches are all most 

 effective and green until winter ; but the noblest of all is 

 the celebrated weeping beech. Its great, gleaming masses 

 of foliage assume all kinds of fantastic shapes, and reveal 

 bowers and recesses until the leaves of almost every other 



