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a rather straggling form and needs full exposure to make 

 it grow stocky and erect. It has one objectionable feature 

 common to all of the native species of sumacs, — that of 



Fig. 130. — Purple Fringe {Rhus Cotinus). 



throwing up suckers from the roots, and often at consider- 

 able distance from the original shrub, — but this objection 

 can be easily overcome by pulhng up the suckers (never 

 cut them off at the surface), and putting all fertilizers or 

 manures close up to the center of the shrub. Its beautiful 



