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and leaves whose upper sides are dyed a dark rich 

 crimson ; and we may find crimson and green, 

 crimson and orange and bronze leaves. Walking 

 on by the same Hawthorn hedge we may chance 

 upon dark, golden, and light, pale green, and upon 

 golden and dark brown leaves ; upon leaves of 

 orange, yellow and russet ; and upon leaves which 

 are reddish brown, dark red, crimson, purplish 

 red, and rich deep orange. It would require lite- 

 rally more than the space of a volume to enume- 

 rate all the variations of these colours which 

 are found blending, contrasting and uniting with 

 each other on the same or on adjoining shrubs. 



In one short walk through a country lane not 

 two hundred yards long, bordered, on either side, 

 with Hawthorn, we have seen, on individual 

 leaves, the colours respectively indicated in the 

 following enumeration, in which the tones pre- 

 dominating on any leaf have priority of mention : 

 dark green with dark brown ; dark green with 

 dark crimson and orange ; pale straw colour with 

 green and russet blotches ; golden green with 

 orange and crimson; bronze with deep red; 

 golden green with orange; orange with russet 



