Trees and Shrubs with Colored Foliage 365 
dasystyla; Liriodendron tulipifera; Gymnocladus Canadensis; Liquid- 
ambar styraciflua. 
Medium-sized trees: Quercus imbricaria, Phellos; Ulmus fulva, mon- 
tana; Acer platanoides, rubrum; AMsculus glabra, octandra; Celtis 
occidentalis; Sophora japonica, Populus monilifera; Gleditsia triacan- 
thus, inermis; Robinia pseudacacia. 
Small-sised trees: Acer campestre; Ausculus Pavia; Salix pentandra 
(laurifolia); Fraxinus viridis; Cladrastis tinctoria; Ostrya virginica; 
Sorbus Americana, aucuparia. 
TREES AND SHRUBS WITH COLORED 
FOLIAGE 
There is a great range of color variation in green foliage, 
which makes possible most pleasing and artistic effects, 
ranging from the dark, lustrous, evergreen foliage of the ever- 
green magnolia and holly, or the dark, equally lustrous, but 
not evergreen Red Oak and the less lustrous Black Oak, or 
among shrubs, Kalmia and Rhododrendon, through all grada- 
tions and shades of lighter hues, as represented by Basswood, 
Tulip-tree, Ash, to the almost silvery whiteness of the foliage 
of Silver Maple, of the olive family and of some of the willows. 
Through the seasons, these shades vary, but each species 
retains characteristic colors, varied to some extent, it is true, 
by situation (dry or humid) and weather conditions, until 
the final fall coloring bursts out into glory. ‘These varia- 
tions can hardly be described, but must be studied in 
Nature. 
In addition to these color variations common in Nature, 
there are special creations, mainly of nurserymen’s produc- 
tion, which exhibit abnormal coloration of foliage, namely 
purple to red of varying hues, yellow or golden, white or sil- 
very, or variegated. Some have the underside of their 
leaves so colored (white) as to change the whole tone of the 
