12. 



BRAMBLE. 

 PLATE 12. FRONTISPIECE. 



ARVELLOUS is the 

 diversity of colour- 

 ing which suffuses 

 stem, leaf, blossom 

 and fruit in the 

 Bramble. Indeed 

 there is probably 

 no other hedge or 

 woodland shrub 

 that equals it in 

 the extraordinary 



and almost endless tints which it wears during 

 the course of the year. But the variations of 

 colour assumed during the early period of leafage 



