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spreading tree, perhaps the White maple deserves most 
praise, its outline and surface being, in many cases, quite 
picturesque. There is no quality, however, for which the 
American maples are entitled to higher consideration as 
desirable objects in scenery, than for the exquisite beauty 
which their foliage assumes in autumn, as it fades and 
gradually dies off. At the first approach of cold we can 
just perceive a bright yellow stealing over the leaves, then 
a deeper golden tint, then a few faint blushes, until at 
length the whole mass of foliage becomes one blaze of 
crimson or orange. 
<f Tints that the maple woods disclose 
Like opening buds or fading rose. 
Or various as those hue3 that dye 
The clouds that deck a sunset sky.” 
The contrast of coloring exhibited on many of our fine 
river shores in a warm dry autumn, is perhaps superior to 
anything of the kind in the world : and the leading and 
most brilliant colors, viz. orange and scarlet, are pro- 
duced by maples. Even in Europe, they are highly 
valued for this autumnal appearance, so different from that 
of most of the trees of the old world. Very beautiful 
effects can be produced by planting the Scarlet and Sugar 
maples in the near neighborhood of the ash, which, as we 
have already noticed, assumes a fine brownish purple ; of 
the sycamore, which is yellow, and some of the oaks, which 
remain green for a long time : if to these we add a few 
evergreens, as the White pine and hemlock, to produce 
depth, we shall have a kind of kaleidoscope ground, harmo- 
nious and beautiful as the rainbow. 
When the maple is planted to grow singly on the lawn, 
or in small groups, it should never be trimmed up ten oi 
