. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSSg. The American Florist. 183. OOOUlOGLOSSUVi PtSCMQRt\. SO brilliant are the autumn tints on its foliage. Tlie brightest bed of coleus and achyranthus ever seen could not compare with it, and this at a time when coleuses have been out of the question for six weeks. Then the older plants of Thun- bergii with their abundant racemes of bright red fruit are equally effective and will continue so long after the foliage has gone. This subject of autumn and winter effects in landscaping has not received the attention
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSSg. The American Florist. 183. OOOUlOGLOSSUVi PtSCMQRt\. SO brilliant are the autumn tints on its foliage. Tlie brightest bed of coleus and achyranthus ever seen could not compare with it, and this at a time when coleuses have been out of the question for six weeks. Then the older plants of Thun- bergii with their abundant racemes of bright red fruit are equally effective and will continue so long after the foliage has gone. This subject of autumn and winter effects in landscaping has not received the attention it should. Even the color of the wood, or bark, may be made to play an important part. The brilliant Vermillion bark of Cornus Sibericus, the rich green stems of the cytisuses, and the odd nutmeg-like white and brown ribbed boughs of Acer Peunsylvanica, these and other equally effective things all suggest possibilities of artistic combinations in this line. A most beautiful sight at the present time, one worth going a long distance to see, is a clump of Spirtea Thunbergii about eight or ten feet across. Its beau- tiful delicate foliage shows every tint of red, yellow and pale green, with its little white flowers thickly dotted all through like stars, while from a distance the whole clump appears like a brilliantsunset cloud. The different varieties of Calluna vul- garis form pretty mats of dark bronzy green. One magnificent plant of the "Tewksbury Heath" (so called from hav- ing been first found at Tewksbury, Mass., by Mr. Dawson in iS5i), is about six feet across, perfectly regular in form and very richly colored. Lyceum chinensis, previously noted in these sketches, is still a beautiful object. It holds the foliage well, and the long trailing racemes of bright scarlet fruit remain in perfection till midwinter. Another very effective fruiting shrub is Symphoricarpus vulgaris. This is fairly loaded with fruit. The berries are in bunches much resembling mulberries, and
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