192 HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
Rhus cotinus , with its seaweed-like inflor- 
escence and purplish leaves. A few scarlet 
oaks cut down in spring each year will give 
you spikes of crimson leaves to grow in your 
middle row, and Rerberis thunbergii , a branching 
shrub of great beauty with intense scarlet leaves 
in autumn for your foreground. In and out 
of your back middle row have Golden Rod and 
the yellow flowers mentioned before, and in 
your front row have masses of early chrysan- 
themums in vivid yellow, bronze, orange, and 
crimson. The golden glory of autumn will 
indeed be manifested in such a planting, 
whether in a border in a garden, or in some 
wood or wild garden where the direct rays of 
the sun can reach it. 
Golden elder and golden privet are equally 
good to help out this scheme of gorgeousness, 
the golden elder when well coloured making 
the most lovely background for hydrangeas in 
that particular shade of vivid blue found in 
Wales and Cornwall. 
