TREES WITH BRIGHT AUTUMN FOLIAGE 



BY F. L. MULFORD 



'T^HE autumn landscape may be made as attractive as 

 ' the spring landscape if the plantings are made with 

 this object in view. About the home attention should 

 be given to planting for this season along with that 

 for other seasons, as the average home is occupied for 

 twelve months in the year. Of course, there are homes 

 that are deserted for long periods and the planting about 

 these should be such that they are most attractive at 

 the season when they are occupied. With other homes 

 there may be special reasons why the plantings for cer- 

 tain seasons should be emphasized at the expense of those 

 for other times. For example the surroundings of the 

 home of a college president or of a college professor 

 might appropriately be planted to be most attractive in 

 the spring especially just before Commencement, so that 

 it might be used in connection with social functions at 

 that season of the year, and specially attractive features 

 for other seasons might be sacrificed to this end. While 



it might be appropriate to devote the president's grounds 

 or even a small portion of the campus almost exclusively 

 to a spring garden, on the other hand a college or board- 

 ing school campus should be so planted that the best 

 possible effect should be produced at the time of the 

 opening of the college and for the succeeding weeks 

 even at the expense of the spring effect. With the average 

 school, planting for summer effect may be ignored, while 

 for a summer home or in a summer resort special efTort 

 for attractive conditions at this season would be most ap- 

 propriate. 



Because flowers are scarce in the fall many people 

 have not thought of the possibility of making their home 

 surroundings especially attractive at this season of the 

 year. It can be accomplished however, even on quite 

 small places by using appropriate plants. People who 

 can afTord to travel to and fro at will, often go to the 

 mountains to enjoy the brilliant coloring of the autumn 



SUGAR MAPLES 



These specimens have grown in a forest so their trunks are very much longer than they would have been had they spent their 

 life m the open, but their fall color will be just as bright a yellow and they will be as attractive in the landscape. 



