ISO TREES IN NATURE, MYTH & ART 



horse-chestnut, are bare, while others, such as 

 the oak, are in full leaf. But an occasional 

 discord does not make the colour of the autumn 

 foliage other than very beautiful. 



"All things brown, and yellow, and red," 

 says Richard Jefferies, ''are brought out by 

 the autumn sun ; the brown furrows freshly 

 turned where the stubble was yesterday, the 

 brown bark of trees, the brown fallen leaves, 

 the brown stalks of plants; the red haws, the 

 red unripe blackberries, red bryony-berries, 

 reddish-yellow fungi ; yellow hawk-weed, yellow 

 ragwort, yellow hazel-leaves, elms, spots in lime 

 or beech ; not a speck of yellow, red, or brown 

 the yellow sunlight does not find out." The 

 leaves have plenty of companionship in their 

 change of colour ; what was the green world 

 of summer now runs through the whole gamut 

 of the warmest hues. But slowly, yet surely, 

 the fire, if we may so put it, dies down. We 

 need fear no discords, for the last green, that 

 of the willow, perhaps, has turned to yellow. 

 Here and there we shall find a patch of 

 brilliant red, as in the scarlet oak, but, for the 

 most part, all has become dun yellow and 

 brown, and soon, with the exception of perhaps 



