Show leaves written for this magazine HE splendors of autumn are arc now THE T upon the forests fo in im various v a ri ous portions portion of thi the e country particularly larl in parts of towa jowa and pennsylvania ania the pain painting is magnificent beyond words chords to describe e to haye this coloring at its best bes 1 it is ig necessary ife c e i i ry to io have it a variety ria of f hardwood trees and these must 1 be e mingled in in varying groups so as to 01 show 6 bathe the s scarlet of the oak the crimson of the ili maple aple the gold and green and brown rf of other species those who have an eye yd for the e beauties di nature learn a fier after alime a time to fo recognize the species as fa far as the color can be dasting distinguished u i s I 1 ie d the coloring matter of green leaves Is is occasioned boned by globules glo bules of the substance which under the influence of sunlight splits carbonic acid into the carbon which is so essential a part of organic life and liberates the excess of oxygen which goes to the purification of the are air the close t texture of the upper part of th eleaf bring s to r ether eilie r a greater number numb er of these little odi odies e s than the looser texture of the lower part and it is ii accordingly of a darker green in th the indigo plant these bodies are ake blue in color A when autumn domes comes the leaves haye baye done aner W work 9 r ae a and fid the globules glo bules 14 cease their r jiing functions 6 ions then oxygen yge i the alad all devouring i ij element attacks them as afi well vi as all the softer p parts t of the leaf according as the oxidation alafi oft goes un on the 1 leaf e becomes yellow rd red d or b baoan n Final lyas we know it be becomes cd hies to black awk when only the carbon and miner mineral al salts are arc left while this is an inevitable process vivid ir matter of many trees operates as an advantage in perpetuating the species for instance the sumach dumach depends upon th the C birds to scatter if its s seeds and the brilliant red of the autumn as assumed slimed at the time the seeds are ready invites t the he birds biad to td ma many hy a feast which otherwise might be overlooked in like mandler ma manner niler the varying maryin 9 tints of the oak and avious various nut trees call to the lively little squirrels who carry and hide them in in various is P places la cs where whee some soffie of them may be left aci to form new trees |