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or the brightness of sunlight. 

 Bluish foliage gives an effect 

 of distance. A belt of junipers 

 on the confines of a lawn in low 

 light might be many hundreds 

 of yards further away, and an 

 effect of space is sometimes 

 valuable. In fact, the colour 

 of trees has been rightly com- 

 pared to a palette, and a judici- 

 ous use of colours is an artist's 

 rarest gift. A feeling for form 

 and composition is more often 

 seen. The introduction of cop- 

 per leaved beech, plum and 

 hazel, and golden elm, elder, and 

 privet, and so forth, has ex- 

 tended the planter's palette 

 with disastrous results in many 

 cases. The nurseryman who is 

 frequently entrusted with the 

 planting is inclined to think the 

 rarity of a tree is sufficient rea- 

 son for its being included in a 

 garden, and he introduces dabs 

 of unquiet colour where broad 

 effects are called for by the 

 design. Like the notion that a 

 picture must possess a note of 

 scarlet, a copper beech is dragged 



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