October 2, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



391 



/-^Ar^rM-^I\T AlVir^ r^r^r^T^O'~r of a bed of Tulips, if they kept flowering all summer long, 



(j/\IVlj[-<r\l Al> I) H i) In t O 1 would soon tire us with the monotonous repetition of the 



^"^ * same note, while everything about them kept changing. 



Visitors eo many miles now to see a mass of well-selected 



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Rhododendrons in bloom, but if the flowers remamed the 



„ ^^ ,„ „ „„ year through, as the foliage does, nothing would be more 



, THE GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO. wearisome We admire the exquisitely delicate tints of 



young unfolding leaves in spring because they soon change 



Off.ce: Tribune BmLDmc, New York. ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^g^,^ ^y^ admire the Splendors of Our 



October woodlands because the foliage flames out for a 

 brief season and does not burn before our eyes from May 



Conducted by Professor c. s. Sargent. until November. The beauty of each season is evanesceiit, 



but it passes through new transformations every day and 

 furnishes surprises all the year through. 



ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST-OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N. Y. Thls Is One reasoii wliy sct pattcm beds madc out of 



plants with vivid and variegated foliage become at last 



worse than wearisome to the eye When once the figure 



NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1895. is set on the grass its form and color is as unvarying as if 



— it were a spread of painted oilcloth While everything 



around them is taking on new forms and fresh colors, 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. these beds remain without any growth, or sequence, or 



PAGE, climax of effect. Surely, if plants have any beauty, it is 



Editorial Articles :—Suggeslious for Autumn Gardens 3(11 the beauty of life that develops illtO SOme new attractive- 



AutrnriSt's'tnLS's.-^^^^^^^^^^^ "ess from youth to maturity and beyond. A set pattern 



Foreign Correspondence :— London Letter /;'. Goidrmg. 394 from whicli the Same colors Stare all day loiig and all the 



CuL?uRAL'DlpAR™ENT\'-Lkte-iiioimLngi€irdVH "'''° summer through, is practically a lifeless thing in the midst 



^ J ^, 7- ^^'oo.hu,i7d M.imiing 396 ^f vicissitude and progress, and when the frost touches it 



Autamn Garden Flowers T. D. Hatfield, -itjj ,- ,,, 11 • i r -j. i' ii 



Cannas J. I. Donian. -^og, evcr SO lightly, or blurs a Single one of its lines, even the 



">■P'■"™'"'^i;^=™"„Tfr•o"m■iJ■h;,V 'd'r'f'^rZffn^"?! trctitious beauty it seemed once to have is gone and it 



Correspondence: — l^oisoning from Khus t. (j. l^oilcman. 3Qa -',,,,., i r 11 



Glimpses of Ventura Gardens •. Charles Hmmird shinn. -y^q remains through all the bright autumn days that follow a 



NoTl^l^yf"?™^::::::^:::::::::::::::::::::;"';:::;-;:''";::::"""::; ^oo repulsive wreck. 



Illustration: — A group of young Pinus ponderosa in llic Yosemite Valley. 



^'s- 54 395 Y>\3i we Can render our gardens a more positive ser- 



= vice at this season than by keeping them free from 



Suggestions for Autumn Gardens. f-^^ eyesores as decaying masses offender plants. Of 



f'^ flovi'ers there need be no lack, but why not arrange to 



EVERY true lover of a garden appi-eciates the feeling bring some of the most striking of the natural effects 

 of Alfred Austen when he wrote that "autumn pos- of an American autumn within our enclosures.^ There 

 sesses the secret of careless grace beyond the spring, and is a choice among autumn fruits, and even among autumn 

 no other season can match its orderly negligence and well- leaves, and we venture to advise once more, as we have 

 thought-out untidiness in form and color. Even to the often urged upon planters, the selection of trees and shrubs 

 garden proper the autumn adds such wonderful touches of with a view to the color of their foliage at this season and to 

 happy accident that when it really comes a wise man the beauty of their fruit. The list of shrubs with fruit of 

 leaves his garden alone and allows it to fade and wane attractive color is so extensive, and these fruits remain in 

 and slowly and pathetically pass away without any effort their full beauty so long, that it would not be a difficult 

 to hinder or conceal the decay." But, after all, by making matter to make an autumn garden of shrubs alone which 

 preparations beforehand we can assist the season in its would be as interesting for its foliage and fruit as a spring 

 perfect work. There is so much bright color everywhere garden could be for its foliage and flowers. The Barber- 

 in the foliage of every wood border and the herbage of ries, the Prinos section of the Hollies, many kinds of 

 every field that any attempt to compete with this flaming .Spindle-trees and the allied Bittersweets, Matrimony-vines, 

 display is disheartening. But we can, at least, arrange our Viburnums and Cornuses, Climbing Honeysuckles, Coral- 

 gardens so that they will keep in full harmony with the berries and Snow-berries, Privets, Hawthorns and Wild 

 natural progress of the year, and while they may have the Roses, and many more are now decorated with fruits in such 

 element of pathos which comes with the lengthening a variety of form and color and persistence as to warrant 

 nights, they need not excite commiseration. The chilling their more extended use. 



arrest of active vegetable-life is as truly a part of the pro- It is true that in selecting trees for planting, the autumn 



gressive order of nature as is the bursting forth of new life color of their foliage is often considered an advantage, but 



when the frost loosens its hold, and the preparation for the who has ever seen in any of our parks a group of different 



winter's sleep is often as beautiful as the spring awakening. species of trees planted for the primary purpose of exhibit- 



And then there are many sturdy plants which show no ing theharmonies and contrasts of their autumn colors.' ^^'e 



symptoms of failing power, but keep on opening flowers are learning something about the physiological changes 



and ripening fruit as if this was their happiest season. The which cause the breaking up of the pigments of the 



list of hardy perennials which Mr. Manning gives in this leaves to form new compounds, and we can trace to 



week's issue shows that for mere floral display they can some degree the processes which make our woods so 



furnish all the material we need without the use of a brilliant in October. But, after all, our knowledge is 



hundred other plants which will make quite as brilliant a very limited. sWe all know individual Red Maples, 



show with a little protection. which glow with an intenser scarlet than any of their 



This calls to mind the fact that one of the principal fellows. It is not at all improbable that if these 



charms of the garden is its constant change. The flowers individuals were propagated, a race or strain of each 



of this season are beautiful in themselves, but they have species could be established in which this peculiarity 



the added charm of a distinct contrast with the flowers would become a fixed habit and enable us to a show a mass 



that have gone before. Perhaps no class of flowers makes of Oaks or Maples that would be almost dazzling in the 



such a, strong appeal to the imagination as those of early splendor of their foliage. But, on the other hand, these colors 



spring, but a part of the delight we have in them comes may be due to certain soil conditions, and cions of these 



from the fact that they are evanescent. The bright colors exceptional trees when grafted on other roots might fail 



