Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-03
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FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 3. 1882,
Our Autumn Foliage.

Our Autumn Foliage.
Germantown Telegraph.
Not many of our readers who have not
been abroad at this period of year, when
the subject is more or less always dis
cussed, know how much our autumn
scenery is appreciated by Europeans. The
leaves of most of their trees die off black
or brownish, nothing we believe except
the Iarch putting on anything like an ap'
proach to the gorgeous colors of our
woods and forest trees. Pictures Of Ameri-
can scenery are among the most popu
lar in European collections and yet
much as they are priced by their
owners, there il generally a lingering
doubt that the reality is equal to the rep
presentation. Many have been known to
come to this county that they may see
and enjoy these great natural beauties,
which many of us See and look on with
scarcely any emotion at all. Our country
friends, who live in the midst of these
great beauties, have no idea how much
they are envied at this season by city peo:
pie, whom it is so much the fashion OF
country-folks to wish to live among.
Hardly man of any sensibility, who goes
to his counting house day after day, but
wishes IS ardently he could spend his days
in the country, as the countryman SO often
desires to be in the citizens place.
At this season the leaves seeca to be at
unusual pains to look their prettiest, and
to put on their best. BY the time We get
through We shall have nearly six weeks of
this annual spectacle, in consequence of
the great variety of our fields and forests
more, we have heard botanists say, than
most parts of the Union can name. First
and earliest TO change this year we noted
the red maple. In some cases this had on
its orange and brown by the end Of Sep
uember. TIE great dOgwood with its rich
blood colo me- next, and next tie dwarf
sumac and the Virginia &, "oer. Even
the poison vine goes into the general re-
joicing, and after the others named takes
on sort of crimson orange of so beautiful |
a tint that one can almo:.t pardon its evil
spirit which makes it SO heartily at other
seasons despised. Thtn follows tho tulip
trees with their COLDER. yellow. and the
sugar and Norway NAPLES with their
lemon ard crimson ard by this time we
a1e nearly half through the snowy season.
But by the time most Of these leaves fall.
the sour OF black gum turns to why pink,
tho sassairas to crimson red aud yellow
tinted, and the white oak and white ash q
sort of purplish brown. To these follow
the Stag's Horn sumac, with its curious
mixture OF ss.rlet and green. the red and
pink oak, 5lackberries, and so-fcrth, in
endless variety. Scarcely, however, have
all these flushed their hymrs OK rejoicing
for their summers lie, than the common
cultivated cherry, now wild everywhe:e e
in this region, takes up tie same story,
and this with the true scarlet oak, keeps
up the glorious strain often till far into
November.
For those who know how to enjoy life
nationally, there is no pleasure like resi-
dence in the country at this season of the
year and those who already living in the
country and yet have never taken pains te
cultivate those tastes which wou!G lead Il
. full enjoyment OF ali these things, know
not how much pleasure in life they lose
If young people were taught to appreciate
and study these pleasing phases of courtI,
life, it would have much to do with making
them contented and satisfied. Even tha
richest man desires liches only that III
may enjoy it, aud often spends largely Il
have what country people get for nothing