Flowers of Autumn 



crop of fruit it is a really striking object, for the 

 fruit is as large as an orange, of a bright gold 

 colour at first, gradually turning, as it ripens, to 

 a rich crimson. The sea buckthorn Hippophcs 

 rhamnoides is another shrub very seldom seen, 

 but always admired ; the contrast between the 

 pale grey foliage and the orange-coloured fruit 

 is unusual and beautiful. It is a native of Great 

 Britain, along the sea-coast, delighting in sand 

 dunes ; but it is a dioecious shrub, so that it is 

 necessary to have a plant of each sex. And, 

 taking the word " fruit " in its full botanical sense, 

 i.e. the part that bears the seed, it would be 

 wrong not to mention among autumnal fruit- 

 trees the common traveller's joy, that is now so 

 beautiful in every hedgerow. Few wild plants 

 have been so noticed as this, and every European 

 country seems to have given it a separate name, 

 proving its popularity. Gerard claims to have 

 given it the name of traveller's joy ; before his 

 time the English name was hedge vine, or downy 

 vine, for "the hedges in summer are in many 

 places al whyte wyth the downe of thys vine " 

 (Turner). It is this " down " which has given it 

 so many names, as "old man's beard," "angel's 

 tears," etc., and it is this down which gives to it 

 its great autumnal beauty. The wild one is too 

 rampant a plant to be admitted into gardens, but 

 I can strongly recommend two species that should 

 be in every garden. One is C. paniculata, a 

 Japanese plant of recent introduction, a very 

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