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. We are 
right for once, in our fashion of placing wil- 
lows near water ; not only their feathery 
texture but their tender and often neutral 
colors fit them well 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 
different ; 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 affected 
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-effect, 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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