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Symphoricarpus vulgaris. — The variegated form of the Coral- 

 berry, or Indian Currant as it is sometimes called, is a very pretty 

 shrub the whole time it is in leaf. Its summer colours are green 

 margined with yellow. In autumn the green changes to red- 

 brown, the yellow persisting. 



Viburnum. — Most of the deciduous species of Viburnum have 

 handsome autumn foliage. Most worthy of notice are V, 

 plicatum, the facile princeps of the hardy kinds for its flowers, 

 and in autumn for its foliage, which is then a deep sanguineous 

 purple ; also V. nudum, an American shrub, 8 to 10 feet high, 

 with a similarly rich autumn colour. 



Climbers. 



Besides the well-known Virginian Creeper and the J apanese 

 Ampelopsis, there are a few other climbers with handsome 

 autumn foliage worthy of notice, and among them — 



Ahebia quinata. — A Chinese plant generally hardy in the 

 south and south-west of England and in Ireland. The autumn 

 colour of its leaves is quite unique — a bronzy brown-purple, the 

 underside greyish green. 



Actinidia Kolomikta and A. ovata. — The leaves of the first 

 change to light yellow, the latter to light orange, the foot- stalks 

 in both species being rose-colour. They form a pleasing con- 

 trast with the purple of the Ampelopsis. 



THE UTILISATION OF RAILWAY EMBANKMENTS, 



By the Rev. W. W. Tyler, B.D. 



{Communicated.) 



According to Whitaker's Almanack we have in our British 

 Isles no less than 19,800 miles of railway in active operation. 

 It is beside our purpose to make any calculation as to the 

 quickest time it would take any genius inspired with a love of 

 travel to pass over every one of those miles ; but having made 

 many journeys which have covered a large proportion of the total 

 mileage, we have often been set thinking about the localities 

 which we pass through, and in this paper we propose to speak 



