218 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



and in the south of England is worth growing for its 

 fine white flowers ; but even where it does not flower 

 it becomes a fine mass of golden yellow in the autumn, 

 and the leaves will remain on the tree till frost comes. 



Another shrub well worth growing for autumn is 

 the flowering currant (Riles sanguineum), of which the 

 autumn foliage is as beautiful as the spring flowers. 



The Virginian creepers are too prominent on many 

 houses to need more than a passing notice. The 

 different sumachs are very fine objects in autumn, and 

 I name them to recommend one of great beauty, the 

 low-growing Rhus glabra laciniata, and to warn all 

 gardeners against another, the North American poison 

 oak, E. venenata, which is splendid in autumn, but 

 which is a most dangerous plant to have in a garden. 

 I must also add that some herbaceous plants have very 

 richly coloured autumn foliage, as the broad-leaved 

 Statices, some of the meadow rues (Thalidrum), and 

 especially the autumn cyclamen (C. hederaefolum), which, 

 though not of a brilliant colour, must be reckoned 

 among the best of autumn foliage plants, for the leaves 

 do not show themselves till the autumn, and they 

 remain in wonderful beauty till the spring. 



I often think that botanists do not take sufficient 

 notice of the colouring of the leaves in autumn ; so far 

 as I know they do not notice it at all, I mean in the 



