TREES WITH BRIGHT AUTUMN FOLIAGE 



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foliage. The latter are better. They give a brilliant touch 

 of color in the spring when in bloom and again in the 

 fall when the leaves turn. 



The bridal wreath spirea (Spiraea prunifolia) turns a 

 deep bronze before the leaves drop and makes a good 

 plant to use among those having yellow or bright scarlet 

 leaves. Thunberg's spirea (Spiraea thunbergii) has 

 bright yellow foliage. 



The foliage of the cornels or bush dogwoods like the 

 silky dogwood (Cornits sericea), the red-stemmed dog- 

 woods (Corniis alba and C. stoloiiifera) , and the panicled 

 dogwood (C. paniculata) show a mixture of red and 

 yellow in their ripening foliage with a preponderance 

 of the effect of the yellow. Unfortunately the leaves 

 soon drop after changing color. 



Some of the Viburnums as the arrowwood Vibur- 

 num dcntatum,) the black haw (V. prunifolium) , and the 

 high bush cranberry (V. apelus or better V. Ameri- 

 canum) all show yellow in their ripened leaves. Other 

 Viburnums like the dockmackie or maple-leaf Viburnum 

 (Viburnum acerfolium) have almost white leaves slightly 

 tinged with pink. 



Another native plant with bright yellow autumn fo- 

 liage is the spice bush (Lindera benzoin). It is native to 

 moist places usually in dense shade and under thess 

 conditions the foliage is rather sparse, but when it is 

 cultivated, especially in the open, it responds with much 

 more abundant foliage. 



Azalea Vaseyi is one of the native azaleas that has 

 a brilliant fall color in its foliage. These leaves turn 

 a brilliant bronze and are very showy. 



In addition to trees and shrubs vines may also add 

 much to the fall color about the home. Among the best 

 ^of these is the American ivy (Ampelopsis quinquefolia) 

 variously called Virginia creeper, woodbine, and five- 

 leaved ivy. This turns a brilliant crimson early in the 

 autumn and the leaves hold on well toward winter. The 

 usual form climbs by means of tendrils, so needs a 

 fence or other support upon which to climb, but there 

 is a form that has sucking disks instead of tendrils and 

 this of course can climb on stone or brick walls that 

 are not too smooth. It is native throughout a large part 

 of the United States and seems to be able to grow almost 

 anywhere. 



Another vine with yellow and red foliage is closely 

 related to the above and goes by the name of the Boston 

 ivy. This climbs on stone and brick walls. 



The false bitter-sweet (Celastrus scandens) has bright 

 yellow fall foliage, but it soon drops. It climbs by 

 twining. 



Another vine with brilliant red foliage at the end of 

 the growing season is the poison ivy (Rhus toxicoden- 

 dron) also called three-leaved ivy and miscalled poison 

 oak. It is native over a wide range of territory and 

 should be eradicated near dwellings and wherever people 

 are likely to frequent. 



PHILANTHROPY OR EFFICIENCY 



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problems are quite different from those any other country 

 has faced, and what may apply to eastern Canada and 

 Maine is the wrong system for Louisiana or the North- 

 west. On the lands of the same paper company in On- 

 tario or Quebec black spruce will have to be differently 

 treated than white spruce. Even the age of a tree can 

 not be used to determine a selective cutting, maturity 

 being reached at different times for the same variety of 

 tree in different soils and topographic locations. It is 

 not the purpose to give a discussion of scientific cutting 

 methods here, but only to emphasize that the application 

 of forestry cannot be put on a textbook rule of thumb 



basis and is inseparably connected with the specific prob- 

 lems of efficient and economic logging. It can be handled 

 only by that department which directly plans and controls 

 all the woods operations. 



Behind the new movement are such men as Ellwood 

 Wilson, chief forester of the Laurentide Company of 

 Quebec, and a leader in the application of practical for- 

 estry in America. The Laurentide Company is one of the 

 largest and oldest newsprint concerns in America and 

 it is significant that it should also become a leader in the 

 idea of forest engineering efficiency versus weak-kneed 

 philanthropy. 



