THE CANADIAN HOKTICULTUKIST. 



AUTUMN BEEEIES. 



We take great pleasure in calling the attention of tlie readers of 

 the Canadian Horticutueist to the colored plate which adorns this 

 number of our monthly. It is a beautiful representation of some of 

 the autumn berries which are to be found on several of our native or 

 cultivated shrubs, and we trust that it will serve to awaken the 

 attention of those who are planting ornamental shrubs about their 

 dwellings, to the beauty of some of these when laden with their 

 variously colored fruits. We plant so as to have as far as possible a 

 succession of flowers, and prize as especially valuable any which flow(~ r 

 late, so as to extend our season of bloom as far into the autumn as we 

 can. But there comes a time in our Canadian climate when the 

 flowers cease and the leaves fall, and the snow covers the ground with 

 its mantle of white. What can we do to give beauty to our lawns^^ 

 ^nd relieve the dull monotony of leafless twigs in the chilly autunni 

 days, and when the wintry winds fire driving the snow before them in, 

 circling eddys ? 



Dame nature, ever bounteous and mindful of that which shall give 

 beauty and variety to her works, has given into our hand many a tree 

 and shrub that we can plant, if we would only use a little forethought, 

 so that our lawns shall be by no means devoid of beauty, nay, rather 

 shall possess a charm in these bleak days when the flowers of summer 

 are gone, that can only be brought out in its fulness at such a season. 



In the leafy month of June we pass by the evergreens without 

 thought perhaps, but when the boughs are bare with what pleasure 

 does the eye rest upon the evergreen trees, noticing variety of shape 

 ftnd foliage, now admiring the sturdy form and sombre hue of the 

 Austrian pine, or the towering spire of the ISTorway spruce, or the 

 graceful outlines of our Canadian hemlock. It is then that we fully 

 fippreciate the value of the evergreen trees, as they stand out in the 

 fulness of their beauty ir^ the winter landscape. So, too, we now 

 notice the beautiful effect of those trees having colored bark, and pause 

 to admire the group of white bark birclies intermingled with the golden 

 bark willow, the red bark dogwood and the striped bark maple. 



But it is to the effect which may be produced by planting those 

 trees and shrubs Avhich in autumn and through a large part of the 

 ^,\dntev e\re grnamented with beautifully colored berries, that- w§ wisti 



