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its "four-sided branchlets" deep green, but the color often ex- 

 tends almost to the ground. Its pods are larger than the 

 smooth ones of the burning bush, are decidedly rough and 

 well colordd — crimson — while its thread-like peduncles and 

 the waxy covering of the seeds are bright scarlet. The pods 

 open from three quarters to an inch in width and the seeds are 

 dropping now, in November, most of the lower pods being 

 empty. It is a very pretty bush, in leaf, flower, pod, seed and 

 stem, and is easily cultivatdd'. — F. G. Kenesson, Renilig, 

 Texas. 



Waste in Lumbering. — According to a recent publica- 

 tion of the United States Forest Service we are still wasting 

 our forest products though well aware that the supply will 

 soon run short. If all the wood wasted in the manufacture 

 of yellow pine lumber, in 1907 had been steam distilled for 

 wood turpentine it would have yielded more than the total 

 production of gum turpentine for that year. If all 

 the waste spruce, hemlock, poplar and cotton-wood in 

 that year had been used for paper making it would 

 have furnished all the paper used in the same time. The wood 

 that went to waste in manufacturing chestnut lumber, if used 

 to make tanning extract would have produced twice as much 

 as was produced by the chestnut cordwood used for that pur- 

 pose. The waste in the manufacture of beech, birch and 

 maple in 1907 was nearly equal to the quantity of these woods 

 used for Id'istillation while the wasted oak for the same time 

 was twice as much as all the hardwoods used for distillation. 

 Evidently the lumberman needs educating or else investigat- 

 ing. 



Relatives of the Sumach. — In most parts of our 

 country the sumach family {Anacardiaceae) is not of much 

 economic value. A few species are planted in extensive 

 grounds for the tropical appearance given by their long pin- 

 nate leaves, but others such as the poison ivy and poison su- 



