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presents one of the most splendid sights of the year, with 

 its dark-green foliage literally studded with scarlet or 

 crimson fruit. The European Euonymus and its varieties 

 display the finest masses of color, although the American 

 kinds bear very attractive frait. Both countries have 

 sorts that turn purple iu fall notwithstanding the fact that 

 the prevailing hue of the genus is green until veiy late. 



There are also bush honeysuckles, mountain ashes, the 

 black alder, Ilex verticillata, and the snow-ball, Viburnum 

 lantana, all remarkable for their brilliant ciimson or orange 

 berries. Very i-emarkable, too, is the snowberry or Sym- 

 p7i07'icarpus racemostts bearing clusters of snow- white waxen 

 fruit. The dark-purple berried Indian curi'ant, Symphori- 

 carpus vulgaris, is less j-emarkable though very attrac- 

 tive. GalUcarpa purpurea, with steel-blue bead-like ber- 

 ries, is also very pretty in autumn. Mahonias have small 

 bright-blue seed-vessels in autumn, and such broad, shining, 

 picturesque foliage that no well appointed shrubbery can 

 afford to neglect them. The little broad picturesque Ber- 

 heris TTiunbergii has also charming autumn tints and bright- 

 red berries. 



Nor should we forget the lovely effects accomplisked 

 by climbing vines in fall. Most remarkable for color and 

 vigor is the Virginia creepei* or Ampelopsis in all is forms. 

 Tke crimson garlands it wreathes about the naked or dead 

 trunks of prominent trees are very effective, because so con- 

 centrated and so distinctly contrasted \vitli adjacent sombre 

 coloring. More beautiful, if possible, tlian our Virginia 

 creeper is its near relative Ampelopsis Yeitchii or t/f-icuspi- 

 data of Japan. This vine is unqiiestionably the finest of 



