BRIEFER ARTICLES 3i7 
“aly to such regions as the Berkshire hills, I am reminded of a little 
discovery I made last October in Bavaria. In visiting the large nurs- 
-ayof the brewing institute of Weihenstephan at Freising near Munich, 
‘Gy attention was attracted by several dashes of bright red color among 
generally somber browns and yellows of the autumn foliage. 
These flashes of color were quite remarkable, even from the distant 
“lll where the institute stands. Upon inquiry 1 learned that this 
night-colored foliage was borne by American and Japanese trees or 
strubs, and that the brightest of all was our common American Quer- 
rubra, whose leaves were as deeply colored as I have ever seen 
in America. Inspector Steinbock remarked, when I expressed 
Surprise at their color, that there were in the park near Munich 
? _B00d-sized trees of the swamp maple (Acer en 
visited These trees and was gratified to find them of the same 
‘which we are accustomed to associate with this species in 
nich, by the lack of those ga} : 
F autumn so sree a sbare of ‘peculiar : 
