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modern cousin, Ampelopsis Feitchii. But why 

 do we not more frequently use the former as 

 I have seen it grown in its native land, as a 

 ground creeper? A more exquisite colour 

 effect is hard to find than its vivid wreaths 

 trailing where they will over pale grey rocks by 

 the lake in Central Park, New York. .The 

 Sumach, growing wild up an American hillside, 

 is a far better plant to look on than in the 

 English garden, where Autumn rains too often 

 spoil its foliage before it has had a chance to 

 come to its intense colour. But the Venetian 

 Sumach, Rhus Cotinus, is a very beautiful object 

 in the Autumn garden ; and, with its round 

 leaves and feathery seed-vessels, I prefer it 

 infinitely to its more gaudy transatlantic 

 cousin. In the famous garden of Great 

 Barton, in which that distinguished botanist 

 and truest of friends, Sir Charles Bunbury, 

 carried on the work begun in the arboretum 

 by his father Sir Henry, the great bushes of 

 Rhus Cotinus were a marked feature at this 

 time of the year ; while the Pomegranate and 

 Myrtle against the house were still in flower 



