TREES WITH BRIGHT AUTUMN FOLIAGE 



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tributed throughout the eastern half of the United States. 

 It is frequently found in swamps or in low ground, seems 

 to succeed well on high dry ground, but probably pre- 

 fers heavy land, while the sweet gum is found in greater 

 abundance on lighter soils. 



The scarlet oak (Qtierctis coccinea) is even brighter 

 than the red oak in its fall colors and is equally as bril- 

 liant as the gums. Its foliage being more finely divided 

 than that of the red oak gives it a lighter, more airy ap- 



TULIP TREE 



-Another one of the yellow foliagcd trees that adds much to the 

 landscape from Pennsylvania and Kentucky southward. It is 

 beautiful in combination with the tupelo or sour gum or the 

 sweet gum. 



pearance while the red of its leaves is most emphatic. It 

 too is widely distributed throughout the eastern half of 

 the country and is found native especially on the gravel- 

 ly ridges and on lighter drier ground. It is not quite 

 such a large tree as the red oak, but is well worthy of 

 culture to help give variety in the autumn effects and 

 can be used to advantage where a slightly smaller tree is 

 desired or one that is a little less sombre in general effect. 

 The pin oak (Querciis palustris) also has brilliant fo- 

 liage and is especially desirable where a trunkless tree 

 is desired, that is, where it is desired to have the foliage 

 extend from the ground to the top of the tree. The ten- 

 dency of the limbs of the pin oak is to droop, and even 

 if the tree is started with a trunk the drooping of the 

 limbs as the tree grows older will have a tendency for 

 them to approach the ground, although if this elifect is de- 

 sired a tree should be planted that has never had the low- 

 er limbs removed sufficiently to show a well-defined trunk. 



The fall foliage is almost as brilliant as that of the scar- 

 let oak, but instead of dropping from the tree on the ap- 

 proach of winter many of the dead leaves remain on the 

 tree until spring. Different specimens vary greatly in the 

 number of leaves they retain, some trees shedding their 

 leaves almost as completely as the red oak and the scar- 

 let oak, while others appear to retain practically all of 

 them until late in the winter. The pin oak seems partial 

 to wet heavy soil although it succeeds under a wide range 

 of conditions. 



In marked contrast to the brilliant reds of the trees 

 already mentioned is the yellow of the sugar or hard 

 maple {Acer saccharum). This is a native of gravelly 

 and other well drained soils of the northern states and 

 southward in and near the mountains. It reaches its 

 greatest perfection in Western New England, New York, 

 Ohio and Kentucky, but is adapted to a wide range of 

 climate and soils, though it is not at its best in the sandy 

 lands near the coast, especially in the south. It is a large 

 oval-headed tree of handsome appearance at all seasons. 



The Norway maple {Acer platanoides) vies with the 

 sugar maple in the brilliance of its yellow foliage in most 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD 



A so-called flowering dogwood in its native habitat standing be- 

 side the trunk of a beautiful specimen of shag-bark hickory. 

 The foliage of the dogwood turns a bright red and adds greatly to 

 the autumn landscape. 



