220 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



tortuous ramifications of the upper branches place the 

 tree in sharp contrast with its surroundings ; it grows 

 beside almost every road in the 

 Northern States, and extends south- 

 ward along the Alle- 

 ghany Mountains to Al- 

 abama. In autumn I 

 know of no other tree 

 which clothes itself 

 in a color so near- 

 ly approaching 

 pure scarlet, and 

 there is no wood 

 of any other tree 

 which seems to 

 me quite so 

 green - yellow. 

 Gray calls it or- 

 ange-colored, but 

 it is rather that 

 peculiar citron hue 

 which may be pro- 

 duced by mixing or- 

 ange and green ; a 

 daub of this color from 

 my paint brush exactly 

 stag-hom Sumach, matches the wood, but anoth- 



