Art Out-of-Doors 



reflection in a sheet of water; and, in gen- 

 eral, moderately dark or grayish or whitish 

 trees best sustain this reflection. AVe ai"e 

 right for once, in our fashion of placing wil- 

 lows near water ; not only their feathery 

 texture but their tender and often neutral 

 colors flt them vrell for such situations. If 

 we imagine a large white willow changed 

 to a vivid yellow-green, like that of the box- 

 elder, we feel at once that its fitness for the 

 neighborhood of water would be seriously im- 

 paired. Of course, in the autumn the case is 

 dinerent ; then all tones are changed for more 

 vivid ones ; brightness is the characteristic 

 quality of the landscape, and the brighter 

 the reflected note, the better it often appears. 



The color of foliage is more or less aftected 

 by its texture. Given leaves of a certain 

 tint of green, the tree will seem darker if its 

 head is massive and dense than if it is feath- 

 ery and infiltrated with light. And it is. of 

 course, the general color-efiect. and not the 

 color of a leaf separately considered, which 

 concerns the student of Nature's beauties 

 and of the planter's tasks. 



It should also be remembered that the 



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