All gardens are planted for autumnal coloration, thanks to the
quality of the leaf of gooseberry and currant, both very hard to beat at this season and singularly retentive of their leaf ; but this is an accident, and most people perhaps give up their gardens too early and take no thought at all for the end of October or early November. The two garden shrubs that have given me the biggest yield of colour about this date are Rhus Cotinus, by some called the Burning Bush, though other shrubs have the same name, and the liquid amber, a variety of maple. Both are worth a place in any garden for the sake of this moment in their life. In spite of storm, wind, rain and even hail the Rhus Cotinus is still solid gold. Among flowers it is now that the mixture of lavender, the old common light grey English variety, and the monthly rose triumph. Both are still in bloom, and the combination of colour is one of the subtlest, in spite of its commonness. * * * *
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