PLANTS VALUABLE BECAUSE OF THE AUTUMN COLOURATION OF THE LEAVES

One of the most charming features of our northern landscapes, es-pecially through the northeastern United States where such a greatvariety of deciduous trees are indigenous, is the autumn colouration ofthe foliage. During the normal growing seasons, when ample rainshave fallen and the trees are full with sap at the end of the season, theautumn colours are much more vivid than during a dry season.

It is extremely important in designing landscape plantings thatthought should be given to the fruiting effects during the fall andwinter months and also to the autumn colours of the foliage of our treesand shrubs. A small touch of colour in the border shrub plantings ofthe average lawn is usually the difference between an uninterestingand an interesting planting at that season of the year. Every plantingshould have introduced into it a few plants which, if not valuable fortheir fruiting and flowering characteristics, will produce a touch ofcolour as accents to relieve the monotony of the dead greens andbrowns during late September and October.