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in other respects the resemblance is very close. 

 The venation is similar, and the autumnal hues 

 of yellow, orange and russet are equally varied 

 and beautiful. On the subject of this tree Gilpin 

 has the following passage : e Kempster tells us 

 that at Jedo, the capital of Japan, he found a 

 species of this tree, the leaves of which were 

 beautifully variegated like the tri-colour, with 

 red, green and yellow! An appearance of this 

 kind is so contrary to Nature's usual mode of 

 colouring the leaves of forest trees that I should 

 rather suspect that Kempster saw it either when 

 the leaves were on the wane, or blasted, or in 

 some other unnatural state.' Doubtless it was 

 the Plane under its autumnal colouring that 

 Kempster saw, for it does sometimes with 

 great beauty and magnificence assume the 

 colours of red, green and yellow, often adding 

 to these hues tints of russet and orange. 



Of famous ancient Planes Gilpin gives several 

 interesting descriptions. Let us quote one which 

 especially well shows the delightfully simple and 

 graphic manner of expression which was charac- 

 teristic of the author of Forest Scenery. Gilpin 

 relates that, ' One of the most celebrated trees 



