AUTUMNAL COLOR ON THE LAWN. 129 



Spircpa Thunbergii. Its small golden green leaves have 

 throughout spring and summer the most exquisite coloring. 

 In fall, however, there is added a wonderful flush of pink 

 that seems to me fine above all the tints of autumn. Such 

 -a plant should scarcely stand out on capes and promonto- 

 ries of foliage among flashing reds and crimsons. Its deli- 

 cate tints harmonize better with more neutral surrounding 

 colors, and accord generally with a more retired position. 



We find a more brilliant autumn shrub and therefore 

 one to be planted more prominently in the Spirceapruni- 

 folia. The leaves of this plant are small and of a shining 

 green, and hang on late in fall when they assume a deep-red 

 color. It is a rapid-growing shrub and should be planted 

 well in the foreground about the base of some brilliant 

 scarlet maple. 



Then the sumacs ! We all know them in fall by the 

 roadside with their crimson leaves and great erect bunches 

 of velvety, purple, and crimson seed vessels. Central Park, 

 N. Y., has masses and territories of them planted in the 

 most effective manner. All around the brilliant capes and 

 headlands of our autumnal picture these plants prove in- 

 valuable for strong red color. There is nothing neutral 

 about them. They are steeped in one deep pervading 

 luxuriance of tint. But we need not content ourselves with 

 even their excellent beauty, for have we not their grander 

 relatives, near cousins, more deeply crimson, if possible, and 

 of finer form and aspect ? I refer to Rhus glabra laciniata 

 and Khus Osleckii. One of these, the former, is a well- 

 known though choice lawn plant, curiously and distinctly 

 cut-leaved. The latter, the most effective of all, Rhus 



