THE SUMACH, WALNUTS, HICKORIES, ETC. 221 



er of orange cadmium is in strong contrast with it. 

 In the Catskill Mountains sumach wood is used by 

 the turners in making walking sticks, boxes, and a 

 variety of ornamental knickknacks. It is a pity the 

 tree does not grow sufficiently large to furnish wood 

 available for cabinet work. 



The stag-horn sumach, common throughout the 

 North (its southern limit is northern Georgia), is too 

 familiar an object on our byways and hillsides to 

 need any leaf description here, and I would rather 

 call attention to it as one of our most beautiful, 

 picturesque, but unappreciated roadside characters, 

 whose brilliant coloring in autumn is unexcelled 

 even by the maple. We must not confuse it with 

 the vicious poison sumach {Rhus venenata)* whose 

 leaflet is without teeth, and whose fruit is a greenish- 

 white berry about the size of a pea. 



The smoke tree {Rims cotinoides) f is a small tree 

 from 25 to 40 feet high, which is a near relative of 

 the sumach, but which is quite out of place here in 

 this division of my leaf classification, for it has a 

 simple, plain-edged leaf, oval, thin, and smooth, or 

 nearly so ; it measures from three to six inches in 

 length. Usually most of the flowers are abortive, 



* Also called Rhus vernix. C. S. Sargent. 



f Also called Cotinus Americana. C. S. Sargent. 



