Planting for Autumn Foliage - In the excellent report on ornamental planting, read by Geo. Ellwanger before the Western New York Horticultural Society, we notice that he alludes to the subject with not only great force, but eloquence.

A home is hardly a home, despite the many attractions that may be within, unless something without, with its cheering presence, serves to add to its attractiveness as well. From the rose bush or flowering shrub, distilling incense from each opening bud; the Virgin's Bower or ivy vine, that weave their intricate network around the porch, to the shade tree that offers its leafy umbrage to the passer-by, or the evergreen that, even in winter, suggests warmth and bids defiance to the chilling blast.

Trees are without, what pictures and works or art are within. They clothe naked-ness; they relieve the eye; they are a never-ceasing well-spring of pleasure that but endears itself as age sets his footprint on the decaying branch and withering bough.

Who, in the recollections of his early home, were he fortunate enough to have passed his younger days surrounded by sylvan charms, has them not impressed upon him all the more vividly from the associations that old trees carry with them? Apart from the infinite variety of form, size, and shape assumed by trees, their variance is none the less striking in their manner of fruitage, their dissimilarity in habit, and their diversity in gorgeous color and tints of foliage.

Nor must we forget the exquisite apparel that clothes our trees in autumn. Their annual tribute to the passing year, as well as the effect produced by the different colored berries and bark of many of our trees and shrubs in the winter, such as the Prinus (the flamingo of the swamps), the viburnum oxyco-cus, the family of the ennonymus; the different varieties of the berberry; the coral-colored berries of the mountain ashes; amber-hued ring of the golden willow; the lustrous red bark of the dog-wood; and the silvery sheen of the birch,