TREES WITH BRIGHT AUTUMN FOLIAGE 



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foliage. These same brilliant colors may be brought into 

 the home grounds with wonderful results. Of course on 

 the small place there cannot be the same magnificent 

 mass effect that may be enjoyed where whole movm- 

 tains of color may be seen at 

 once. On the other hand, the 

 details are lost in the distance 

 in the case of the mountains 

 but on the home grounds 

 they may be observed and en- 

 joyed. In many of nature's 

 works what may be enjoyed 

 at a distance in bold masses 

 may also be enjoyed close at 

 hand where the exquisite de- 

 tail may be appreciated. Man 

 may construct either for close 

 or distant view, but seldom 

 succeeds in combining in the 

 same object pleasing results 

 from both standpoints. For- 

 tunately the plants that give 

 the great masses of autumn 

 color in the forest are also 

 beautiful when viewed as in 

 dividuals close at hand. 



The contrast in the greens 

 of the American landscape as 

 seen in spring and summer is 

 apt to be somewhat dimmed 

 in the fall as the result of the 

 dry weather prevalent in so 

 many sections of the country 

 at this season of the year. 

 This dulling of the general ef- 

 fect may make the later 

 changing of color to brilliant 

 reds and yellows all the more 

 noticeable. It is upon these 

 foliage changes that the plan- 

 ter must largely depend for 

 the late autumn effects. Ear- 

 lier in the season flowers can 

 be utilized. Some of them are 

 golden rods and asters with 

 iron-weed, Joe-pye-weed and 

 rudbeckias, including the 

 showy golden glow; while in 

 shrubs there are the fading 

 trusses of the hydrangeas, 

 especially the hardy garden 

 hydrangea (Hydrangea pan- 

 iculata graudiflora) and the 

 flowers and seed of the climb- 

 ing Japanese clematis (Cle- 

 matis paniculata). At this 

 season, too, many of the 

 showy berries are beginning 



A FOREST CAPABLE OF BRILLIANT COLOR 

 EFFECTS ON THE APPROACH OF WINTER 



In such a forest the red and yellow of the red maple 

 on the lower reaches may be supplemented higher 

 up by the red of oaks interspersed with sugar maples 

 and tulip trees like the fine specimen in the fore- 

 ground. ' ' ' 



to color well, but they do not reveal their most striking 

 beauty until the foliage is gone. It is after the leaves 

 have dropped that the beauty of the berries and of 

 bright-colored stems are seen to best advantage and not 



until after the snow comes 

 that they are most appre- 

 ciated. 



In winter, too, evergreens 

 add a welcome bit of color if 

 used in moderation, the con- 

 iferous evergreens in the 

 north like the pines, spruces 

 and cedars, or broad-leaved 

 evergreens in the south, like 

 the evergreen magnolia, the 

 hollies, and the cherry laurel. 

 But it is not alone in winter 

 that the dark green foliage 

 of these trees is of advantage 

 in the landscape, for they 

 greatly enhance the attrac- 

 tiveness of the changing fol- 

 iage of maples and oaks on 

 the approach of cold weather. 

 Bright red or yellow leaves 

 become much more attrac- 

 tive if seen in contrast with 

 the dark green foliage oi 

 evergreens. 



One of the first of the 

 good shade trees to show 

 bright color in the fo- 

 liage is the red maple 

 (Acer rubrum) also some- 

 times called swamp maple. 

 This becomes a rather large 

 tree of somewhat irregular 

 shape when mature, bearing 

 smallish leaves of the typical 

 maple shape and of a rather 

 light green. Small branches 

 or whole limbs often begin to 

 turn a beautiful red and yel- 

 low as early as August. These 

 splotches of color often re- 

 main for weeks on otherwise 

 green trees. Sometimes it is 

 a few scarlet leaves, again 

 some yellow ones, but more 

 often red with more or less 

 admixture of yellow. As the 

 season advances the whole 

 tree assumes these bright col- 

 ors, the different branches as- 

 suming different shades and 

 combinations. It drops its 

 leaves earlier than many 

 other trees, but it is one of 

 our handsomest. In addition 



