ANACARDIACEZ. 
1629." 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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The Staghorn Sumach is occasionally found in American gardens; and in central and northern 
Kurope it is now one of the most common and popular exotic trees. It can be grown with a single 
stem for the decoration of the lawn, or it can be used with good effect to cover gravelly slopes, the 
margins of roads, and other waste places. 
The excellent habit of the Staghorn Sumach, its ample and brilliantly colored foliage, its large 
panicles of male flowers, and its brilliant fruit make it one of the most beautiful of the small trees which 
inhabit the northern states. 
The specific name, derived from ti¢os, relates to the supposed virtues of this plant in the treatment 
of fevers. 
tion was the Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, or a garden of all 
sorts of pleasant flowers. This was published in 1629, and is still 
interesting as it gives the best idea of the condition and contents 
of English gardens at the beginning of the seventeenth century. 
In 1640 appeared a much more comprehensive and important work 
from the pen of Parkinson, the Theatrum Botanicum, the Theatre of 
Plants, or an Herbal of a large extent, which was intended to include 
an account of all the plants described by earlier authors “ encreased 
by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare and strange Plants 
from all parts of the world.” This book was Parkinson’s life work, 
and was not published until ten years before his death. The Black 
Walnut, the Red Mulberry, and the Shellbark Hickory, as well as 
the Staghorn Sumach, are believed to have been first cultivated in 
England by Parkinson. 
Parkinsonia, a genus of leguminous trees, natives of tropical 
America and southern Africa, with one of its species now widely 
distributed by cultivation through all the warmer parts of the 
world, commemorates Parkinson’s services to botany and horti- 
culture. 
1 Sumach. Sive Rhus Virginiana. Virginian Sumacke. Theatr. 
1449, f.— Aiton, Hort. Kew. i. 365.— Loudon, Arb. Brit. ii. 550, 
f. 224. 
