328 AUTUMNAL LEAVES. 



blotches ; yellow with orange and green blotches ; 

 deep red with orange and green spots; golden 

 green with dark brown splashes ; bronze with 

 crimson and orange ; deep red with orange red 

 and green ; pale green with pale straw colour and 

 brown; pale green with light red and orange; 

 pinkish red, with orange and green ; and crimson 

 with reddish orange and green. And these are less 

 than a tithe of the tints which any one may discover 

 who takes the trouble to study the Hawthorn 

 hedgebanks in the early season of Autumn. 



To such marvellous variety of individual tinting 

 the Blackthorn cannot lay claim ; but it often, in 

 the mass, presents pretty combinations of green 

 and yellow and russet, with, occasionally, light 

 reddish hues, and its forked, principal veins, which 

 branch alternately from either side of the mid-veins 

 to the serrated margin, give origin to a beautiful 

 and elaborate system of reticulating venules. 



To the splendours of autumnal hedges the Dog- 

 wood largely contributes. Its symmetrical, oval 

 leaf which is ordinarily pointed at the apex, pos- 



