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marvellously striking and beautiful. Upon one 

 and the same twig we may see deep green, pale 

 green, and golden green leaves : a sere and yellow 

 leaf and a pink or bright red one. But inter- 

 mediate between all these we may find an almost 

 endless variety of tinting. The almost uniformly 

 green surface of a leaf may have a sort of golden 

 lustre shed upon it, so equally spread that it is 

 impossible to say where the lightness begins or 

 where it ends. On another leaf, whilst the centre 

 is subjected to this species of light, the lobes all 

 around will glow with orange, with a deep golden 

 hue, or with a hue of golden brown. Another 

 leaf will be dyed through with a deep rich orange 

 colour, excepting a spot or patch or other space 

 of vivid green, which will be found in the very 

 centre of the almost pervading orange. Leaves 

 may also be found with green bordering their 

 edges, and orange or gold or golden brown in 

 their centres ; others again will present lobes of 

 deep red side by side with other lobes on the 

 same leaf of a bright orange or golden brown, 

 whilst others still will have gold and pink and 

 green, in spreading patches, merging so insensibly 



