invest trees of these colors require great care , but their colors mingled with the battalion of others in autumn are good and of great sweetheart ; they do not fuse well with the normal greens , particularly if used in quantity . They should , therefore , be used sparingly in isolation at point where they will unavoidably catch the centre .
A figure have clear colors when the leaves blossom forth but gradually drop off this quality and become sombre as the season progresses . Others , not included here , become normal green when the leaves are open .
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ACER PLATANOIDES Crimson King’ (Goldsworth Purple’),
Norway maple with crimson - purpleness farewell larger than the eccentric .
BETULA PENDULA PURPUREA
The purple - leave birch tree is not a vigorous tree .
CORYLUS MAXIMA PURPUREA
The purple - leaved Corylus avellana is a good vividness though not often of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree size . See painting above .
FAGUS SYLVATICA ATROPUNICEA
The drear empurpled beech , cuprea copper color beech ; and purpurea , purple beech tree , are all well - love , authentic trees hit a considerable sizing and quite unsuitable for other than the big garden . Weeping shape of these one-sided edition are also available
Cedrus atlantica glauca is a refined conifer withglaucous blueleaves .
MALUS
The flowering crabs provide several kinds with red or purple foliation combined with festive flower and ornamental fruit . All are very hardy and adaptable , well suitable to a small garden;M.x aldenhamensis , purplish foliage , richred flowersand crimson fruit . M. eleyi is rather more vigorous than the last , the leaves bronze - green crimson with regal , thefruit hanging longer on the tree.M.purpurea has coloured purplishgreen leaves , crimson peak and fruits , both tinged with purpleness . M.`Wisley Crab ’ , orotund than the foregoing in all its part , the leaves bronzy - ruddy , the flowers large , wine colored , sweet and heavy cryptical - red fruits .
PRUNUS
Several plums have colored farewell , the best include P. blireana ( often a bombastic shrub ) deep Cu withpink bloom . P. cerasifera atropurpurea , advantageously know as P. pissardii , with crimson - purple foliage , desirable also for hedging ; nigra has darker leaf .
QUERCUS PETRAEA PURPUREA
Has red - purple leaves which become fleeceable flushed with red . Q.robur fastigiata purpureahas new leaves the same color .
